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Place Name
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Rock Island County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Rock Island
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Population
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148,723 (1990)
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Location
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Illinois, United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°28'N
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Longitude
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90°34'W
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Rock Island
, county (
451 sq mi/1,168 sq km; 1990 pop.
148,723), NW Ill.;  Rock Island; 41°28'N 90°34'W. Bounded N
and W by the Mississippi and partly E by Rock R.; drained by Rock R.
Has Ill. portion of Quad Cities. Includes Black Hawk State Historic
Site and Campbell's Isl. state parks and part of a natl. wildlife
refuge. Mfg. (machinery, ordnance, apparel, wood prods.); agr. (cattle,
hogs, poultry; corn, soybeans; dairy prods.). Nuclear power plants:
Quad Cities 1 (initial criticality October 18, 1971) and Quad Cities 2
(initial criticality April 26, 1972) are
20 mi/32 km NE of Moline. Use cooling water
from the Mississippi R., and each has a max. dependable capacity of 769
MWe. Rock Island (city) was spared flood damage in 1993 by flood wall,
while Davenport, across river, was seriously affected. Formed
1831.
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