Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Scott County

The Auditor’s Report for the year 1861, shows the following statistics in reference to Scott County:


1860
1861
Acres of land assessed
282,251
283,688
Value of land
$3,494,386
$2,886,188
Vales of town property
$3,304,968
$2,244,602
Value of personal property
$911,300
$,1011,593
Value of land per acre
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$8.41
Total valuation
$7,710,764
$5,642,328
State tax
$11,528
$11,284

The land of Scott county was assessed higher than that of any other county in the State with one exception – Lee County.

Lee county
$8.45
Dubuque county
$7.49
Scott co
$8.41
Des Moines co
$8.21
Muscatine co
$7.30
Clinton co
$6.45
Henry co
$7.20
Cedar co
$6.40
Van Buren co
$7.48
Washington co
$7.11

Dickinson county lands were assessed at $1.70 per acre – the lowest in the state.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2

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