Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Counties
- Scott and Muscatine
- Mayor
- Jacob Puck
- City
- 3.14 sq mi (8.12 km )
- Land
- 3.11 sq mi (8.06 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 725 ft (221 m)
- Density
- 498.5/sq mi (192.47/km )
- Metro
- 382,630 ( 135th )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-81705
- Website
- cityofwalcott .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Walcott (/ˈwɔlkɔt/ WAWL-cawt, sometimes locally [ˈwɔlkət]) is a city in Muscatine and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,551 at the time of the 2020 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Walcott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.