Walcott, Iowa
| Walcott, Iowa | |
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| City | |
Buildings along E. Bryant Street
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| Motto: "Heart & Hands Working Together" | |
 Location of Walcott, Iowa |
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| Coordinates: 41°35′25″N 90°46′23″W / 41.59028°N 90.77306°WCoordinates: 41°35′25″N 90°46′23″W / 41.59028°N 90.77306°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Iowa
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| Counties | Scott, Muscatine |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | John Kostichek |
| Area | |
| • City | 3.49 sq mi (9.04 km2) |
| • Land | 3.47 sq mi (8.99 km2) |
| • Water | 0.02 sq mi (0.05 km2) |
| Elevation | 732 ft (223 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 1,629 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 1,625 |
| • Density | 469.5/sq mi (181.3/km2) |
| • Metro | 382,630 (135th) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 52773 |
| Area code(s) | 563 |
| FIPS code | 19-81705 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0462603 |
| Website | City of Walcott, Iowa |
Walcott is a city in Muscatine and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,629 at the 2010 census. Walcott's interchange on Interstate 80 is home to an enormous complex of restaurants, motels and truck stops, including the Iowa 80 truck stop which is the world's largest.
Most of Walcott is part of the Davenport–Moline–Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, but the Muscatine County portion of the city is considered part of the Muscatine Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Walcott was incorporated on July 10, 1894.
The City of Walcott was originally platted in 1854. The first passenger train route west of the Mississippi River started in 1855 and helped Walcott grow. William Walcott, who was a director of Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, donated $500 in 1855 for the construction of a school building, with the stipulation that the fledgling town along the railroad tracks near Davenport be named after him.
Long before Walcott was even a vision to William Walcott, it was a great expanse of open prairie inhabited by the Kaskaskia Indians. The Kaskaskias were later driven out of the Quad Cities area by the renegade Mesquaki tribe. This tribe, a splinter of the Canadian Iorquois, was America's largest Indian nation.
In 1857, much of the Walcott land was sold for as low as 75 cents an acre, enabling many German and Scotch-Irish immigrants to settle in the area. Many of the Scotch-Irish worked for the railroad builders and settled on the farmland south and west of the town. While they contributed much to the early development of Walcott, around 1871 they began to move farther west. Most of the German settlers were from Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and some came from eastern and southern Germany. By 1910, nearly 90 percent of the farmland in Scott County was owned by German immigrants or their descendents.
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