Editing Scott County, Iowa (section)

==History==
[[File:Scott County, Iowa Courthouse.jpg|left|thumb|250px|The newly redesigned courthouse entrance]]

The first American settlement in the area now known as Scott County was Clark's Ferry or Clark's Landing (now [[Buffalo, Iowa|Buffalo]]) in 1833. Other early towns included Davenport (now the county seat and largest city) and [[Rockingham Township, Scott County, Iowa|the town of Rockingham]] (which ceased to exist in 1847). The area was fully surveyed in 1837, and the county was established by the [[Wisconsin Territory|Wisconsin territorial]] legislature in that same year. Scott County is named for General [[Winfield Scott]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottcountyiowa.com/history/|title=Scott County History|date=June 3, 2015|website=scottcountyiowa.com|access-date=April 6, 2018}}</ref> who was the presiding officer at the signing of the peace treaty ending the [[Black Hawk War]].

By 1900 the population of the county was 51,500, and by 1950 it was over 100,000. Scott County now comprises part of the [[Quad Cities|Quad City]] region, which includes the cities of Davenport and [[Bettendorf, Iowa|Bettendorf]] (in Iowa) and [[Rock Island, Illinois|Rock Island]], [[Moline, Illinois|Moline]] and East Moline (in [[Illinois]]).

The present [[Scott County Courthouse (Iowa)|Scott County Courthouse]] was completed in 1955 and expanded along with the jail in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iowacourtsonline.org/wfdata/frame1759-1464/pressrel81.asp|title=Scott County Courthouse|publisher=Iowa Judicial Branch|access-date=February 10, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726184711/http://www.iowacourtsonline.org/wfdata/frame1759-1464/pressrel81.asp|archive-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_84e24232-0286-11e0-a54b-001cc4c03286.html|title= Scott County opens new jail to the public |publisher=[[Quad-City Times]] (November 16, 2007)|access-date=February 10, 2011|last=Allemeier|first=Scott}}</ref> The old section of the [[Scott County Jail (Iowa)|Scott County Jail]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983.<ref>{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> The courthouse was included as a [[contributing property]] in the [[Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District]] in 2020.<ref name=James>{{cite web|url=https://www.downtowndavenport.com/pdf/FOR_SHPO_DavenportCommercialHD_Nov_18_revised_2019.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503133005/https://www.downtowndavenport.com/pdf/FOR_SHPO_DavenportCommercialHD_Nov_18_revised_2019.pdf |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |url-status=live|title=National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District|publisher=Downtown Davenport, Iowa|access-date=September 25, 2020|author=Jennifer Irsfeld James}}</ref>