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Scott County, Iowa

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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—digitized titles
288historic places
—earliest paper
1837formed
174,669pop. 2020
49cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 288 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Davenport, Le Claire, Bettendorf.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Iowa is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Scott titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

254 of 288 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

288 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Adams, Walker, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Adler, E. P., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Ambrose Hall (Additional Documentation)DavenportBuilding1977
American Commercial and Savings BankDavenportBuilding1983
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Bldg.DavenportBuilding1983
Argyle FlatsDavenportBuilding1983
Ball-Waterman HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Ballard, John W., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Barrows, Edward S., HouseDavenportBuilding1976
Beiderbecke, Leon Bismark, HouseDavenportBuilding1977
Benton, Richard, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Berg, Henry, BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Best, Louis P. and Clara K., Residence and Auto HouseDavenportBuilding2010
Bethel AME ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
Bettendorf, Joseph F., HouseBettendorfBuilding1983
Bettendorf-Washington SchoolBettendorfBuilding1984
Blackhawk HotelDavenportBuilding1983
Boyle, John R., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Brammer Grocery StoreDavenportBuilding1983
Bridge Avenue Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1983
Brown, James, HouseRiverdaleBuilding1982
Brownlie, Alexander, HouseLong GroveBuilding1976
Bryan, Alden, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Buchanan SchoolDavenportBuilding1983
Buffalo High SchoolBuffaloBuilding2005
Building at 1119-1121 W. Third StreetDavenportBuilding1983
Building at 202 W. Third StreetDavenportBuilding1984
Building at 813-815 W. Second StreetDavenportBuilding1983
Burdick, Anthony, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Busch, Diedrich, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Calvary Baptist Church/First Baptist ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
Cameron, W. S., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Carr, William V., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Cawley, James, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Central Fire StationDavenportBuilding1982
Central Office BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Freight HouseDavenportBuilding1985
City MarketDavenportBuilding1984
Claussen, William, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
CliftonDavenportBuilding1979
Cody HomesteadMcCauslandBuilding1974
Cody Road Historic DistrictLe ClaireDistrict1979
College Square Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1983
Collins HouseDavenportBuilding1976
Columbia Avenue Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1984
Community BuildingPrincetonBuilding2008
Cook, Clarissa, Home for the FriendlessDavenportBuilding1983
Copeland, George, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Cork Hill DistrictDavenportDistrict1984
Cottage at 1514 and 1516 W. Second StreetDavenportBuilding1983
Crescent Warehouse Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2003
Currier HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Davenport Bag and Paper Company BuildingDavenportBuilding2018
Davenport Bank and Trust (Boundary Increase)DavenportBuilding2016
Davenport City HallDavenportBuilding1982
Davenport CrematoriumDavenportBuilding1983
Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2020
Davenport Hose Station No. 3DavenportBuilding1984
Davenport HotelDavenportBuilding1983
Davenport Motor Row and Industrial Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2019
Davenport VillageDavenportDistrict1980
Davenport Water Co. Pumping Station No. 2DavenportBuilding1984
Davison, Abner, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Dawley HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Democrat BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Dessaint, Marie Clare, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Dillon MemorialDavenportStructure1983
Dils-Downer HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Donahue BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
East 14th Street Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1983
East Hill House and Carraige HouseRiverdaleBuilding1999
Ebeling, Arthur, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Ebeling, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Edinger, Edward, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Eldridge, D. C., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Eldridge, Theodore, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Ewert, Ferdinand, BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Fennern, Henry P., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Ficke BlockDavenportBuilding1983
Finch, Fred, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
First Bible Missionary ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
First Church of Christ, ScientistDavenportBuilding1984
First Federal Savings and Loan Association BuildingDavenportBuilding2016
First National Bank BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
First National Bank of DavenportDavenportBuilding2018
First Presbyterian ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
Forest Grove School No. 5BettendorfBuilding2013
Forrest BlockDavenportBuilding1983
French, Alice, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Frick's TavernDavenportBuilding1974
Gabbert, William, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Gamble, James, HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Gannon, M. V., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Gaspard, D. Julius, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Germania-Miller/Standard HotelDavenportBuilding1983
Glaspell, Isaac, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Goering, Jacob, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Goodrich, William T., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Gordon-Van Tine Company Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2017
Grilk, Charles, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Guy, Finley, BuildingDavenportBuilding1984
Hall, Israel, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Hamburg Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1983
Hamburg Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2017
Hauschild's HallDavenportBuilding1983
Hebert, Louis, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Heinz, Bonaventura, House (second)DavenportBuilding1983
Henne, Robert, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Hibernia HallDavenportBuilding1983
Hiller BuildingDavenportBuilding1974
HillsideDavenportBuilding1982
Hoersch, John, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Hoffman BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Hoffman, Samuel, Jr., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Holbrook, William, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Horton-Suiter HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Hose Station No. 1DavenportBuilding1983
Hose Station No. 6DavenportBuilding1983
Hose Station No. 7DavenportBuilding1983
Hotel Mississippi-RKO Orpheum TheaterDavenportBuilding1998
House at 1646 W. Second StreetDavenportBuilding1983
House at 2123 W. Second StreetDavenportBuilding1983
House at 2212 W. River DriveDavenportBuilding1984
House at 318-332 Marquette StreetDavenportBuilding1983
House at 919 Oneida StreetDavenportBuilding1984
International Harvester Truck Sales and Service StationDavenportBuilding2025
Iowa Reform BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' HomeDavenportDistrict1982
Jansen, Theodore, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Kahl BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Kahl, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Kattenbracher HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Kiene, Albert, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Kimball-Stevenson HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Klindt, George, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Klindt, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Koch Drug StoreDavenportBuilding1984
Koenig BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Koester, Nicholas, BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Kuhnen, Nicholas J., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
LONESTAR NHLLeClaireStructure1989
LeClaire, Antoine, HouseDavenportBuilding1974
Lerch, Gustov C., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Lincoln SchoolDavenportBuilding2002
Linden FlatsDavenportBuilding1983
Lindsay, James E., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Linograph Company Building, TheDavenportBuilding2009
Lippincott, John, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Littig Brothers/Mengel & Klindt/Eagle BreweryDavenportBuilding1983
Littig, John, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Lock and Dam No. 14 Historic DistrictPleasant ValleyDistrict2004
Lueschen, John, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Mallet, Joseph, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Martzahn, August F., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Marycrest College Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2004
McBride-Hickey HouseDavenportBuilding1983
McCaffrey HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
McCarthy, Patrick F., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
McClellan Heights Historic DictrictDavenportDistrict1984
McHarg, Joseph S., HouseDavenportBuilding1985
McKinley Elementary SchoolDavenportBuilding2002
McKinney HouseDavenportBuilding1983
McManus HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Meadly HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Meiser Drug StoreDavenportBuilding1983
Middleton, Dr. George McLelland, House and GarageDavenportBuilding1982
Miller BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Miller, F. H., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Miller, Severin, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Motie, Joseph, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Murray, Thomas, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Nebergall "Knoll Crest" Round BarnBlue GrassBuilding1986
Newcome, Daniel T., Double HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Newhall, Lucian, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Nichols, Oscar, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Nighswander, Benjamin, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Northwest Davenport Savings BankDavenportBuilding1984
Northwest Davenport Turner Society HallDavenportBuilding1979
Oak Lane Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1984
Oakdale Cemetery Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2015
Ockershausen, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Old City HallDavenportBuilding1983
Old Mill HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Outing ClubDavenportBuilding1977
Pahl, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Palmer, B. J., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Paulsen, Peter J., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Paustian, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Peters' Barber ShopDavenportBuilding1984
Peters, J. C., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Petersen's, J. H. C., Sons StoreDavenportBuilding1983
Petersen, Max, HouseDavenportBuilding1979
Petersen, W. D., Memorial Music PavillionDavenportStructure1983
Picklum, Frank, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Pierce School No. 13DavenportBuilding1983
Plambeck, Joachim, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Pohlmann, Elizabeth, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Pohlmann, Henry, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Potter-Williams HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Price, Hiram/Henry Vollmer HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Prien BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Priester Building, TheDavenportBuilding2017
Prospect Park Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1984
Putnam-Parker BlockDavenportDistrict2011
Quickel, Jacob, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Radcliff, Willam, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Raible, F. J., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Rambo HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Ranzow-Sander HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Raphael, Jacob, BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Regina Coeli MonasteryBettendorfBuilding1994
Renwick BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Renwick HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Riverview Terrace Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1984
Roberts, Edward C., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Roslyn FlatsDavenportBuilding1983
Rowhouses at 702-712 Kirkwood BoulevardDavenportBuilding1984
Royal Neighbors of America National Home Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict2015
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Cathedral ComplexDavenportBuilding1984
Saengerfest HalleDavenportBuilding1983
Schebler, Richard, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Schmidt BlockDavenportBuilding1983
Schmidt, F. Jacob, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Schmidt, Louis C. and Amelia L., HouseDavenportBuilding2007
School Number 6DavenportBuilding2011
Schricker, John C., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Schricker, John, HouseDavenportBuilding1985
Schroeder Bros, Meat MarketDavenportBuilding1983
Scott County JailDavenportBuilding1983
Sharon, Fred B., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Shaw, E. A., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Shields Woolen MillDavenportBuilding1983
Siemer HouseDavenportBuilding1977
Simpson, Charles S., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Sitz, Rudolph H., BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Smith, Alvord I., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Smith, Henry H./J.H. Murphy HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Smith, James, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Smith, John, HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Smith, William G., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Spencer, Roswell, HousePleasant ValleyBuilding1982
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church ComplexDavenportBuilding1984
St. John's Methodist Episcopal ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
St. Joseph's Catholic ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
St. Katherine's Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1984
St. Luke's HospitalDavenportBuilding1983
St. Mary's AcademyDavenportBuilding1984
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church ComplexDavenportBuilding1984
St. Paul's English Lutheran ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
Stewart, J. W., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Stone HouseLe ClaireBuilding1983
Stone SchoolLe ClaireBuilding1977
Struck, Dr. Kuno, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Suiter, Jacob, HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Suiter, John H., HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Suiter, William, HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Swan, George B., HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Swedish Baptist ChurchDavenportBuilding1983
Taylor SchoolDavenportBuilding1983
Templeton, I. Edward, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Tevoet, Lambert, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Trinity Episcopal CathedralDavenportBuilding1974
Tromley, George, Jr., HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Tromley, George, Sr., HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Union Electric Telephone & TelegraphDavenportBuilding1983
Union Savings Bank and TrustDavenportBuilding1983
Union Station and Burlington Freight HouseDavenportBuilding1983
United States Post Office and Court HouseDavenportBuilding2005
Untiedt, Claus, HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Van Sant, Samuel, HouseLe ClaireBuilding1979
Vander Veer Park Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1985
Von Ach, Frank J., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
WOC Broadcasting CenterDavenportBuilding2021
Walsh Flats/Langworth BuildingDavenportBuilding1984
Walter-Gimble HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Warner Apartment BuildingDavenportBuilding1983
Washington FlatsDavenportBuilding1984
Washington GardensDavenportBuilding1984
Werthman GroceryDavenportBuilding1984
West Third Street Historic DistrictDavenportDistrict1983
Westphal-Schmidt HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Whitaker, Charles, HouseDavenportBuilding1985
Wilkinson, Thomas C., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Wolters Filling StationDavenportBuilding1984
Woods, Oscar C., HouseDavenportBuilding1984
Worley, Philip, HouseDavenportBuilding1983
Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. HallDavenportBuilding1983
Zoeller Bros-Independent Malting Co.DavenportBuilding1983

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Scott was formed in 1837 (1837-12-21) from Cook, Dubuque, Muscatine.

SCOTT created by Wisconsin Territory from COOK (extinct), DUBUQUE, and MUSCATINE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Scott County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

175k88k2,1401840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,14025,95941,26651,55873,95284,748100,698119,067160,022158,668174,669

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

49 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 49 of 49 listed
NameLatLon
Allens Grove Cemetery41.7067-90.72792
Big Rock Cemetery41.76456-90.82655
Blue Grass Cemetery41.50834-90.75752
Burch Cemetery41.65814-90.67614
Chapel Hill Cemetery41.49408-90.67827
Davenport Memorial Park41.56344-90.5597
Dixon Cemetery41.74308-90.78764
Eldridge Cemetery41.65733-90.58731
Fairmont Cemetery41.51225-90.63735
Fairview Cemetery41.61261-90.39837
Fairview Cemetery41.72031-90.50958
Fenno Cemetery41.55028-90.45747
Fessler Cemetery41.7117-90.41819
Friday Family Cemetery41.5096-90.66793
Glendale Cemetery41.59142-90.36179
Holy Family Cemetery41.52914-90.62052
Jacks Cemetery41.63348-90.36614
Kay Family Cemetery41.65136-90.51395
Kisenmacher Cemetery41.53841-90.72608
Kizer Cemetery41.68892-90.8307
LeClaire Prairie Cemetery41.63371-90.43165
Linn Grove Cemetery41.66935-90.68966
Long Grove Christian Church Cemetery41.69531-90.58347
Maysville Cemetery41.65026-90.71825
McCausland Cemetery41.7477-90.44653
Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery41.56267-90.56371
Mount Joy Cemetery41.69947-90.54791
Mount Nebo Hebrew Cemetery41.56466-90.55549
Mount Union Cemetery41.6851-90.45669
New Liberty Cemetery41.73444-90.8796
Nowlan Cemetery41.71419-90.3554
O'Toole Cemetery41.65002-90.73347
Oak Ridge Cemetery41.66899-90.34961
Oakdale Cemetery41.54667-90.54912
Oakdale Cemetery Soldiers' Lot41.5457-90.54649
Pine Hill Cemetery41.56212-90.55515
Pioneer Cemetery41.77122-90.87863
Pleasant Valley Cemetery41.57309-90.42386
Princeton City Cemetery41.66997-90.34499
Rose Hill Cemetery41.46448-90.72569
Sacred Heart Cemetery41.54326-90.59176
Saint Anns Catholic Cemetery41.72899-90.57733
Saint Marys Church Cemetery41.52501-90.59588
Saint Patricks Cemetery41.76918-90.82848
Saint Peter's Cemetery41.46475-90.72653
Salem Cemetery41.67995-90.40374
Summitt Cemetery41.62531-90.49922
Tri - City Jewish Cemetery41.51204-90.63099
Walcott Cemetery41.58116-90.77659
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
NameLatLon
Chapel Hill41.49225-90.64736
Gambrill41.75197-90.53569
Noel41.75059-90.59208
Rockingham41.48253-90.63347

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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