Polk County, Wisconsin, United States

Details for Polk County

Name

Polk County

Place Type

County

Located in

Wisconsin, United States

County Seat

Balsam Lake

Coordinates

Latitude		45.4499583		45° 26' 59.8" N
Longitude		-92.4168633		92° 25' 00.7" W

Population

34,773

Elevation

359 m

Surrounding Counties

Burnett N
Barron E
Dunn SE
Saint Croix S
Washington (Minnesota) SW
Chisago (Minnesota) W

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1581108

Histopolis Place ID

708460703

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Polk County

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

Cemeteries in or near Polk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=23151&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (8 Jan 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Polk County, Wis. [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/WI/PL.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Wisconsin > Polk County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Wisconsin > Polk County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/WI/Polk/ (22 Jun 2010)

Polk County, Wisconsin WI, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Polk County, Wisconsin WI, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23151 (26 Nov 2008)

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

Polk County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_County,_Wisconsin (26 Aug 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=3040 (4 Sep 2009)

USGenWeb Polk County WI Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/polk/polk.htm (31 Jan 2010)

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Surveys in Polk County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 22 Townships

The Fourth Principal Extended Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Polk County. You can navigate to any of the 22 survey townships that overlap Polk County using the navigation tool below.

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Towns, Cities and Villages of Polk County

24 Towns, 2 Cities, 9 Villages (Town is assumed unless noted)

Alden	Amery (city)	Apple River	Balsam Lake
Balsam Lake (village)	Beaver	Black Brook	Bone Lake
Centuria (village)	Clam Falls	Clayton	Clayton (village)
Clear Lake	Clear Lake (village)	Dresser (village)	Eureka
Farmington	Frederic (village)	Garfield	Georgetown
Johnstown	Laketown	Lincoln	Lorain
Luck	Luck (village)	McKinley	Milltown
Milltown (village)	Osceola	Osceola (village)	Saint Croix Falls
Saint Croix Falls (city)	Sterling	West Sweden

Cities of Polk County

2 Cities, 10 Villages, 26 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Amery (city)	Atlas	Balsam Lake (village)	Bunyan
Centuria (village)	Clam Falls	Clayton (village)	Clear Lake (village)
Cushing	Deronda	Dresser (village)	East Farmington
Eureka Center	Fox Creek	Frederic (village)	Horse Creek
Indian Creek	Joel	Lamar	Lewis
Little Falls	Luck (village)	Lykens	McKinley
Milltown (village)	Nye	Osceola (village)	Pole Cat Crossing
Range	Richardson	Saint Croix Falls (city)	Sand Lake
Turtle Lake (village)	Ubet	Wanderoos	West Denmark
West Sweden	Wolf Creek

Cemeteries of Polk County

32 Cemeteries, 5 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Apple River	Balsam Lake	Clayton	El Salem
Elim	Evergreen	Fristad	Georgetown
Granum	Haustrup	Johnstown	Lawson
Lewis	Lincoln	Long Lake	McAskill
Mount Hope	Mt. Hope (*)	New Home	Oak Grove
Old Settlers	Pleasant Hill	Pleasant Prairie	Ramsey
Saint Croix Falls	Saint John	Saint Marys	Saint Peters
Sand Lake	St. Croix Falls (*)	St. John (*)	St. Marys (*)
St. Peters (*)	Travelers Rest	Union	Wagon Landing
West Clayton

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