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Bettendorf is a city in Scott County, Iowa, on the Mississippi River and one of the Quad Cities, located next to Davenport and across the river from Moline, East Moline and Rock Island, Illinois.

The Bettendorf area was opened to European-American settlement after the Black Hawk Purchase of 1832, when the United States bought the land from the Sac and Fox following the Black Hawk War.

Bettendorf began as two neighboring villages — Lilienthal, named after an early tavern and dance hall, and Gilbert, platted in 1858 in honor of Elias Gilbert — settled mostly by German immigrants, which eventually combined into the town of Gilbert.

Around 1900, the town gave brothers William and Joseph Bettendorf 70 acres of riverfront land on the condition that they move their iron wagon business there from Davenport.

In 1903, the town of 440 citizens petitioned for incorporation and took the name Bettendorf in honor of the brothers, whose factory drove the young city's growth.

In the late 1940s, the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) chose Riverdale, an enclave of Bettendorf, to build the world's largest aluminum mill, creating thousands of jobs and fueling decades of population growth.

The first modern riverboat casinos in the United States were launched in Bettendorf on April 1, 1991, by local businessman Bernard Goldstein, who went on to found Isle of Capri Casinos.

Bettendorf had 39,102 residents at the 2020 census, making it the 15th-largest city in Iowa, after growing 17.7% during the 2010s.

Bettendorf's 39,102 residents lived in 15,708 households at the 2020 census, and the city's median age was 39.9 years.

Bettendorf is served by two public school districts — the Bettendorf Community School District, which operates Bettendorf High School, and the Pleasant Valley Community School District in the eastern part of the city.