Polk
Polk County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,977. Its county seat is Balsam Lake. The county was created in 1853 and named for United States President James K. Polk.
Photo: Iulus Ascanius, Public domain.- Type: County with 43,800 residents
- Description: county in Wisconsin, United States
- Also known as: “Polk County”, “Polk County, WI”, and “Polk County, Wisconsin”
- Neighbors: Chisago County
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balsam Lake.
Balsam Lake
Village
Photo: Iulus Ascanius, Public domain.Polk
- Categories: county of Wisconsin and locality
- Location: Wisconsin, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.4319° or 45° 25′ 55″ north
Longitude
-92.4075° or 92° 24′ 27″ west
Population
43,800
Elevation
1,132 feet (345 metres)
Open location code
86Q9CHJV+P2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Polk” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Polk County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بولك”
- Armenian: “Պոլկ”
- Asturian: “condáu de Polk”
- Basque: “Polk konderria”
- Bavarian: “Polk County, Wisconsin”
- Bavarian: “Polk County”
- Belarusian: “графства Полк”
- Belarusian: “Полк (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Полк”
- Bishnupriya: “পোল্ক কাউন্টি, উইসকনসিন”
- Bishnupriya: “পোল্ক কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Полк”
- Catalan: “comtat de Polk”
- Cebuano: “Polk County”
- Chechen: “Полк (гуо, Висконсин)”
- Chechen: “Полк”
- Chinese: “Polk Kūn”
- Chinese: “波爾克縣”
- Dutch: “Polk County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Polk”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Polk”
- Esperanto: “Polk County”
- Finnish: “Polkin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Polk”
- French: “Comté de Polk”
- French: “Polk County”
- German: “Polk County”
- Gilaki: “پؤلک ٚ شأرستان (ويسکانسين)”
- Gilaki: “پؤلک ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Πολκ”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Πολκ”
- Hungarian: “Polk megye”
- Irish: “Contae Polk”
- Italian: “contea di Polk”
- Italian: “Contea di Polk”
- Italian: “Polk County”
- Japanese: “ポーク郡”
- Korean: “포크군”
- Latin: “Polk Comitatus”
- Low German: “Polk County”
- Mazanderani: “پولک شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Polk Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Polk Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Polk County”
- Norwegian: “Polk County”
- Persian: “شهرستان پولک، ویسکانسین”
- Persian: “شهرستان پولک”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Polk”
- Portuguese: “condado de Polk”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Polk”
- Portuguese: “Polk County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Polk, Wisconsin”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Polk”
- Russian: “Полк”
- Sardinian: “contea de Polk”
- Serbian: “Polk County”
- Serbian: “Округ Полк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Polk County, Wisconsin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Polk County”
- Spanish: “condado de Polk”
- Spanish: “Condado de Polk”
- Spanish: “Polk County”
- Swedish: “Polk County, Wisconsin”
- Swedish: “Polk County”
- Tatar: “Полк (округ, Висконсин)”
- Tatar: “Полк”
- Turkish: “Polk County, WI”
- Turkish: “Polk County, Wis.”
- Turkish: “Polk County, Wisconsin”
- Turkish: “Polk County”
- Turkish: “Polk ilçesi, WI”
- Turkish: “Polk ilçesi, Wis.”
- Turkish: “Polk ilçesi, Wisconsin”
- Turkish: “Polk ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Полк”
- Urdu: “پوک کاؤنٹی، وسکونسن”
- Urdu: “پوک کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Polk”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Polk, Wisconsin”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Polk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Polk, Wisconsin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Polk”
- Welsh: “Polk County, Wisconsin”
- Welsh: “Polk County”
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