Davenport, Florida Davenport, Florida Davenport Hist Dist City Hall pano01.jpg Location in Polk County and the state of Florida Location in Polk County and the state of Florida Davenport is a town/city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 2,888 at the 2010 census. While the town/city of Davenport itself is very small, the region north of the town/city close to Interstate 4 and US 27 is experiencing explosive growth.
The settlement in the region now known as Davenport was established in 1838 when the U.S.
Military set up Fort Davenport amid the Second Seminole War, about 12 miles north of the present site of Davenport.
The fort was one of a number assembled at 20 mile intervals along a trail from Fort Brooke to Fort Mellon.
The fort only lasted a several years. The fort was titled for Colonel William Davenport, who served as the small-town U.S.
Commander in the war. There is no known documentary evidence to support an alternative claim that the town/city was titled for a barns conductor. The undivided town/city of Davenport had its start in the 1880s when the South Florida Railroad was extended to that point. The settlement was first known as Horse Creek, for the creek first recorded on a U.S.
Army survey of 1849 which flows past the site to enter Snell Creek and eventually Lake Hatchineha in the Kissimmee River system. A postal service was established at Horse Creek in 1884, and the name of the postal service was changed to Davenport in 1886. Davenport was incorporated in 1915. The South Florida Railroad opened a station half a mile north of the present site of the city.
Davenport is positioned at 28 09 38 N 81 36 10 W. Davenport is positioned inside the Central Florida Highlands region of the Atlantic coastal plain with a terrain consisting of flatland interspersed with gently rolling hills. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (3.68%) is water.
Davenport is positioned in the humid subtropical zone, as designated by (Koppen climate classification: Cfa). Climate data for Davenport, Florida As of the census of 2000, there were 1,924 citizens , 708 homeholds, and 536 families residing in the city.
The populace density was 1,230.5 inhabitants per square mile (476.2/km ).
There were 913 housing units at an average density of 583.9 per square mile (226.0/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 86.85% White, 6.91% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 4.52% from other competitions, and 0.83% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.7% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 21.3% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 28.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $29,408, and the median income for a family was $41,000.
About 7.2% of families and 10.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 10.6% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.
In 2010 Davenport had a populace of 2,888.
The ethnic and ethnic composition of the populace was 58.6% non-Hispanic white, 10.8% black or African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.5% Filipino, 0.6% other Asian, 0.2% Samoan, 0.2% non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 2.8% reporting two or more competitions and 28.8% Hispanic or Latino.
No one Hispanic group formed a majority of the populace with 12.7% being Puerto Rican, 12.1% being Mexican and the remaining 3.9% of the populace that was Hispanic scattered among a several different groups. The region around Davenport in northeast Polk County used to be centered on the remote Circus World amusement park.
It was redeveloped in 1987 into Boardwalk and Baseball and encompassed a minor league baseball park that would attract spring training and minor league baseball squads for the Kansas City Royals, earning the region the moniker "Baseball City".
The Baseball City name is now extinct, and the region around the stadium (which was completed in 2005) has been redeveloped into Posner Park, a large outside shopping mall.
Interstate 4 - Located 8 miles north of town, this freeway provides access westward to Lakeland and Tampa, and eastward to the Walt Disney World Resort and Orlando.
US 17/92 - This chief north/south route cuts through the center of town, dominant northward to Kissimmee and southward to Haines City.
US 27 - Located a several miles west of town, US 27 provides access to I-4 going northward, and leads southward to Haines City and Lake Wales.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Davenport, Florida.
"Guide to Polk, Davenport".
Enumeration Viewer: Davenport, Florida Population: Enumeration 2010 and 2000 Interactive Map, Demographics, Statistics, Quick Facts "Mayor and City Commission - Davenport Florida".
"How Remote Fort Has Grown".
The Heritage Trail from Horse Creek to Davenport.
The Heritage Trail from Horse Creek to Davenport.
"Polk County".
The Heritage Trail from Horse Creek to Davenport.
"Florida's Geological History".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
2010 general demographic report for Davenport Municipalities and communities of Polk County, Florida, United States
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