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	-----	$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