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→Communities: See the talk page for explanation. I still need to verify the populations of all these towns . . . Already found that Moline and Silvis were way off, and were thus in the wrong groups.
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==Communities==
==Communities==
===Places with 90,000 to 120,000 inhabitants===
===Places with over 50,000 inhabitants===
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*[[Davenport, Iowa]]
*[[Davenport, Iowa]]
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===Places with 50,000 to 90,000 inhabitants===
===Places with 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants===
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*[[Moline, Illinois]]
*[[Moline, Illinois]]
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===Places with 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants===
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*[[Bettendorf, Iowa]]
*[[Bettendorf, Iowa]]
*[[Rock Island, Illinois]]
*[[Rock Island, Illinois]]
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===Places with 10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants===
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*[[East Moline, Illinois]]
*[[East Moline, Illinois]]
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*[[Silvis, Illinois]]
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===Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants===
===Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants===
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*[[Silvis, Illinois]]
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*[[Aledo, Illinois]]
*[[Aledo, Illinois]]
*[[Blue Grass, Iowa]]
*[[Blue Grass, Iowa]]
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*[[Port Byron, Illinois]]
*[[Port Byron, Illinois]]
*[[Walcott, Iowa]]
*[[Walcott, Iowa]]
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===Places with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants===
===Places with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants===
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*[[Annawan, Illinois]]
*[[Annawan, Illinois]]
*[[Cleveland, Illinois]]
*[[Cleveland, Illinois]]
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*[[Riverdale, Iowa]]
*[[Riverdale, Iowa]]
*[[Sherrard, Illinois]]
*[[Sherrard, Illinois]]
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===Unincorporated places===
===Unincorporated places===
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*[[Barstow, Illinois]]
*[[Barstow, Illinois]]
*[[Creekville, Iowa]]
*[[Creekville, Iowa]]
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*[[Montpelier, Iowa]]
*[[Montpelier, Iowa]]
*[[Mount Joy, Iowa]]
*[[Mount Joy, Iowa]]
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==References==
==References==

Revision as of 01:40, 1 April 2012

Quad Cities
Population
379,690 (2,010 est.)

The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, more formally known as the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area is the metropolitan area associated with the Quad Cities and its suburbs. The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area is also considered part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, and is the largest "Metropolitan Area"" along the Mississippi River in Iowa and between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the St. Louis metropolitan area.[1] The Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of four counties: Scott County in Iowa and Henry, Mercer, and Rock Island counties in Illinois. The Quad City Metro population as of a 2010 estimate is 379,690.[2] The Greater Quad Cities region which includes Muscatine County has a population of 422,435.[3]

In addition to the five anchor cities, the Quad Cities area comprises surrounding smaller communities. Examples include the Iowa cities of Dixon, Donahue, Eldridge, Long Grove, Park View, Blue Grass, Buffalo, Montpelier, Walcott, Maysville, McCausland, Mount Joy, New Liberty, Princeton, LeClaire, Panorama Park and Riverdale. The Illinois communities are Silvis, Milan, Andalusia, Carbon Cliff, Coal Valley, Colona, Geneseo, Hampton, Port Byron, Orion, Kewanee, Annawan, Aledo, and Rapids City.

Communities

Places with over 50,000 inhabitants

Places with 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

Places with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants

Unincorporated places

References

  1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Megalopolis
  2. ^ "American FactFinder". United Staes Census Bureau. 2010. Retrieved May 26, 2011. Note: Quad City population is equivalent to adding up the populations of Scott County, Iowa and Rock Island, Mercer, and Henry Counties in Illinois.
  3. ^ http://www.greaterqcregion.org/


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