Polk County, Iowa, United States

Details for Polk County

Name

Polk County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Des Moines

Coordinates

Latitude		41.6833218		41° 40' 60" N
Longitude		-93.5835502		93° 35' 00.8" W

Population

327,140

Elevation

280 m

Surrounding Counties

Story N
Jasper E
Marion SE
Warren S
Madison SW
Dallas W
Boone NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465265

Histopolis Place ID

552031103

Updated Oct 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Polk County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

The Political Graveyard: Polk County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Polk County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/polk/cemetery.html (23 Nov 2009)

Polk County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Polk County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7601 (13 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Polk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7601&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=623 (10 Sep 2009)

Polk County, Iowa Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Polk County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/us/ia/polk.htm (16 May 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Polk County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Polk County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Polk/ (30 Dec 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Polk County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Polk County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Polk/cem/ (18 Nov 2008)

Polk County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_County,_Iowa (4 Aug 2010)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Polk County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/polkcounty.html (31 Jul 2008)

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Surveys in Polk County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 17 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Polk County. You can navigate to any of the 17 survey townships that overlap Polk County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Polk County

21 Townships

Allen	Beaver	Bloomfield	Camp
Clay	Crocker	Delaware	Des Moines
Douglas	Elkhart	Four Mile	Franklin
Jefferson	Lee	Lincoln	Madison
Saylor	Union	Walnut	Washington
Webster

Cities of Polk County

20 Cities, 66 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Adelphi	Alleman (city)	Altoona (city)	Andrew Mobile Home Park
Andrews	Ankeny (city)	Ashawa	Autumn Ridge Estates
Avon	Avon Lake	Berwick	Blue Bird Mobile Park
Bondurant (city)	Bowsher	Camp Dodge	Campbell
Capitol Heights	Carbondale	Carlisle (city)	Carney
Clive (city)	Commerce	Corydon (historical u.p.)	Country Club Crossing
Country Estate Village	Country Living Mobile Home Park	Crestwood	Crocker
Des Moines (city)	East Des Moines	Easton Place	Elkhart (city)
Enterprise	Farrar	Fort Des Moines	Grandview Village Mobile Home Park
Granger (city)	Grimes (city)	Hastie	Herrold
Highview Mobile Home Park	Ivy	Johnston (city)	Levey
Loring	Lovington	Marquisville	The Meadows
Mel-Ray Mobile Home Park	Millman	Mitchellville (city)	Norwalk (city)
Norwoodville	Oakwood Heights Mobile Home Park	Oralabor	P and H Mobile Home Court
Paradise Mobile Home Park	Park View Village Mobile Home Park	Pine Grove Mobile Home Park	Pleasant Hill (city)
Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park	Polk (city)	Polk City Junction	Quilhart (historical u.p.)
Radio City Mobile Home Park	Regency Manor Mobile Home Park	Rider	Rising Sun
Rocklyn Mobile Home	Runnells (city)	Santiago	Saylor
Saylor Station	Saylorville	Sheldahl (city)	South Ridge Estates
Stover Heights Community	Sunny-Brook Mobile Home Park	Swanwood	Urbandale (city)
Valley Junction	West Des Moines (city)	Western Village Mobile Home Park	White Oak
Windsor Heights (city)	Woodland Hills

Cemeteries of Polk County

62 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Altoona	Ankeny Memorial Gardens	Avon	Beebe
Berwick	Bondurant	Bretheran	Byers
Canfield	Chapel Hill Gardens	Crocker	Davis Farm
Elkhart	Elm Grove	Emmanuel	Enterprise
Farrar	Fort Des Moines	Franklin	Glendale
Greenwood	Highland Memory Gardens	Holy Cross	Hopkins Grove
Jordan	Keller	Kinsey	Laurel Hill
Lem Small	Lincoln (Jefferson Township)	Lincoln (Lincoln Township)	Lowman
McDivitt	Mitchellville	Mount Zion	Mt. Zion (*)
New Altoona	Oak Grove	Oak Grove	Oakwood
Oralabor	Peoria	Pinehill	Polk City
Powers-Warren	Resthaven	Ridgedale	Rising Sun
Rittgers	Saint Ambrose	Sheldahl	Sims
Spry	St. Ambrose (*)	Stuart	Sunny Hill
Sunset Memorial Gardens	Union	United Bretheran	United Brethren
Valley View	White Oak	Wicker	Woodland

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