Polk County, North Carolina, United States

Details for Polk County

Name

Polk County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Carolina, United States

County Seat

Columbus (Columbus Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		35.2834487		35° 17' 00.4" N
Longitude		-82.1665017		82° 09' 59.4" W

Population

14,416

Elevation

358 m

Surrounding Counties

Rutherford NE
Spartanburg (South Carolina) SE
Greenville (South Carolina) S
Henderson W
Buncombe NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1008579

Histopolis Place ID

451984858

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Polk County

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1725 (29 Aug 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Polk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19573&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (31 Dec 2008)

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

Polk County, North Carolina NC, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Polk County, North Carolina NC, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19573 (19 Nov 2008)

Polk County, NC Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/polk/polkcemeteries.html (12 Jul 2010)

Polk County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_County,_North_Carolina (22 Aug 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Polk County, N.C. [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/NC/PO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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

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Townships of Polk County

6 Townships

Columbus	Cooper Gap	Greens Creek	Saluda
Tryon	White Oak

Cities of Polk County

1 City, 2 Towns, 21 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Beulah	Burnt Chimney Corner	Collinsville	Columbus (town)
Cox Store	Green Creek	Hickory Grove	Kross Keys
Lynn	McGinnis Crossroads	Melrose	Mill Spring
Mount Valley	Pea Ridge	Peniel	Poplar Grove
Rock Springs	Saluda (city)	Sandy Plains	Sandy Springs
Stearns	Sunny View	Tryon (town)	Valhalla

Cemeteries of Polk County

6 Cemeteries

Bradley	Bradley	Good Shepherd	Jones-Price
Patty	Polk Memorial Gardens

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