Polk County, Missouri, United States

Details for Polk County

Name

Polk County

Place Type

County

Located in

Missouri, United States

County Seat

Bolivar

Established

1835

Coordinates

Latitude		37.6167061		37° 37' 00.1" N
Longitude		-93.4001968		93° 24' 00.7" W

Population

21,826

Elevation

314 m

Surrounding Counties

Hickory N
Dallas E
Greene S
Dade SW
Cedar W
Saint Clair NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

758538

Histopolis Place ID

375992199

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Polk County

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

Polk County, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_County,_Missouri (28 Jul 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Polk County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Polk County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Polk/cem/ (12 Nov 2008)

cemetery Polk Co. MO USGenWeb Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/polk/polkcem.htm (5 Dec 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Polk County, Mo. [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/MO/PO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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

Polk County, Missouri MO, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Polk County, Missouri MO, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20604 (17 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Polk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20604&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=1480 (12 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Polk County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Polk County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Polk/ (4 Mar 2010)

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Surveys in Polk County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 20 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Polk County. You can navigate to any of the 20 survey townships that overlap Polk County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Polk County

23 Townships

Campbell	Cliquot	East Looney	East Madison
Flemington	Jackson	Jefferson	Johnson
McKinley	Mooney	North Benton	North Green
North Greene	Northeast Marion	Northwest Marion	South Benton
South Green	Southeast Marion	Southwest Marion	Union
West Looney	West Madison	Wishart

Cities of Polk County

4 Cities, 1 Town, 4 Villages, 37 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Adonis	Aldrich (village)	Bolivar (city)	Boyd
Brighton	Burns	Cedar Vista	Clifford (historical u.p.)
Cliquot	Dewey (historical u.p.)	Dunnegan	Eudora
Eudora Springs (historical u.p.)	Fair Play (city)	Flemington (village)	Goodnight (village)
Goodson	Graydon Springs	Gresham (historical u.p.)	Halfway (village)
Huckaby	Humansville (city)	Huron	Ingalls (historical u.p.)
Karlin	Knox	Mohawk Corner	Morrisville (town)
New Market (historical u.p.)	Orleans (historical u.p.)	Pleasant Hope (city)	Polk
Rex	Rimby	Rock Prairie	Rondo
Schell (historical u.p.)	Schofield	Sentinel	Slagle
Sunset	Tin Town	Van	Violet
West Bend	Wishart

Cemeteries of Polk County

40 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Akard	Ankrom	Breshears	Bushy Creek
Case	Cave Spring	Chamberlain	Dunaway
Dunnegan	Flemington	Glover	Goff
Gorden	Greenwood	Henderson	Hensley
Hubbard	Humansville	King	Lemmon
McDaniel	Morgan	Mount Olive	Mt. Olive (*)
New Life	Oak Grove Baptist	Payne	Pickel
Ragsdale	Reed	Richardson (Johnson Township)	Richardson (Northeast Marion Township)
Shady Grove (Johnson Township)	Shady Grove (Union Township)	Spencer	Tiller
Tinker	Trimble	Union Grove	Viles
Wollard

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