Polk County, Oregon, United States

Details for Polk County

Name

Polk County

Place Type

County

Located in

Oregon, United States

County Seat

Dallas

Coordinates

Latitude		44.8665061		44° 51' 59.4" N
Longitude		-123.4512164		123° 27' 04.4" W

Population

49,541

Elevation

181 m

Surrounding Counties

Yamhill N
Marion E
Linn SE
Benton S
Lincoln SW
Tillamook N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1135862

Histopolis Place ID

779878157

Updated Sep 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Polk County

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

The USGenWeb Archives Project - Polk County, Oregon: Cemetery Records [USGenWeb Archives]
Bios Baker Co., ORGenWeb
http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/polk/polkcems.htm (8 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Polk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=15423&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (23 Dec 2008)

Polk County, Oregon OR, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Polk County, Oregon OR, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=15423 (21 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Oregon > Polk County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Oregon > Polk County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OR/Polk/ (31 Jul 2010)

Polk County, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_County,_Oregon (11 Aug 2010)

Oregon Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [Oregon Gravestones]
Research your Oregon ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Oregon gravestone photos. Locate Oregon gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Oregon roots.
http://oregongravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=27 (2 Apr 2011)

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

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2231 (26 Aug 2009)

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Surveys in Polk County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 29 Townships

The Willamette Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Polk County. You can navigate to any of the 29 survey townships that overlap Polk County using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Polk County

6 Cities, 39 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Airlie	Ballston	Bethel	Bethel Heights
Black Rock	Bowersville (historical u.p.)	Bridgeport	Broadmead
Brush College	Buell	Buena Vista	Carey (historical u.p.)
Chapman Corner	Cochrane (historical u.p.)	Dallas (city)	Ellendale
Eola	Falls (city)	Ferns (historical u.p.)	Fir Villa
Grand Ronde	Hopville	Independence (city)	Kingwood Park (historical u.p.)
Lewisville	Lincoln	McCoy	Modeville
Monmouth (city)	Oakdale	Parker	Pedee
Perrydale	Putnam (historical u.p.)	Rickreall	Salem (city)
Salemtowne	Stapleton	Suver	Tucker (historical u.p.)
Valley Junction	Valsetz (historical u.p.)	West Salem	Willamina (city)
Zena

Cemeteries of Polk County

32 Cemeteries

Ball	Bethel	Brown	Buena Vista
Butler Davidson	Cemetery Hill	Claremont	Dallas
Embree	Etna	Falls City	Falls City Odd Fellows
Fast	Fircrest	Hart Riggs	Hubbard
Hussey	Indian	Mennonite	Montgomery
Pedee	Pleasant Hill	Rest Lawn Memory Gardens	Salt Creek
Schrag	Smith	Taylor	Union Baptist
Willamina	Williams	Womer	Zena

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