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Place Information Name Polk Alternate names Polk     (Getty Vocabulary Program) Type County Coordinates 35.133°N 84.5°W Located in Tennessee, United States     (1839 - ) See also McMinn, Tennessee, United States     (Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)) Contained Places Larger map Inhabited place Archville Ball Play Belltown Hill Belltown Benton Springs Benton Station Benton Boonville Camp Ocoee Chable Chanceytown Coletown Conasauga Copperhill Delano Dogtown Ducktown Farner Fetzerton Grassy Creek Grief Hambright Harbuck Isabella Kimsey Linsdale McAllister Hill McGeetown McHarg Newtown Oak Grove Ocoee Old Patty Oldfort Parksville Patterson Mill Patty Pine Ridge Postelle Probst Reesetown Reliance Rymers Servilla Staffordtown Stewardtown Sylco Towee Turtletown Wetmore Willis Springs Watching Page

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names source: Family History Library Catalog the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia Polk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The county had a population of 16,050 in 2000. Its county seat is Benton6. [edit section] Timeline Date Event Source 1839 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources 1840 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources 1840 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990 1840 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990 1873 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources 1894 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources 1894 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources 1908 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources [edit section] Population History source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990 Census Year Population 1840 3,570 1850 6,338 1860 8,726 1870 7,369 1880 7,269 1890 8,361 1900 11,357 1910 14,116 1920 14,243 1930 15,686 1940 15,473 1950 14,074 1960 12,160 1970 11,669 1980 13,602 1990 13,643 [edit section] Research Tips This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc. This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Polk County, Tennessee. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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