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Welcome To Polk County Oregon TTTP Genealogy and History Project
This county is adoptable to a researchers with access to Genealogical and Historical records in Polk County and for Oregon in general.
If interested, please contact Admin Don Kelly, AdministratorT
Summary about Polk County: Indians of Polk County were friendly to settlers, but the army had to build a fort, not to protect settlers, but to protect Indians. Names of many original settlers are lost to history until records they left behind are found in old libraries, attics of old homes, etc. No history of Polk County is complete without a brief history of the Natives of this area. Wars in Southern and South-Central Oregon with no quarters given ran up to hundreds of battles and thousands of deaths before the indians were saely settled on reservations. About Indian Waes in South-Central Oregon. We hope to be able to build all censuses of this county. |
HISTORY OF POLK COUNTY: Oregon's was founded December 22, 1845. Polk County is named after James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States. The major industries of the county are agriculture, forest products, manufacturing, and education. Polk County has the second-largest area devoted to viticulture in Oregon, at 1322 acres. GEOGRAPHY: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 744 square miles of which 741 square miles is land and 3 square miles is water. Two thirds of Polk County is forest, mostly of the coniferous and mixed varieties, bordering on temperate rain forest around Laurel Mountain, the wettest place in Oregon. NEIGHBORING COUNTIES: Yamhill County north, Marion County east, Benton County south, Lincoln County west, and Tillamook County northwest. National protected areas Baskett Slough, National Wildlife Refuge, Siuslaw National Forest. The county courthouse in Dallas The Oregon Provisional Legislature created Polk County from Yamhill District on December 22, 1845, granting to it the entire southwestern portion of present day Oregon to the California border. County boundaries were periodically changed to reflect the creation of Benton and Lincoln counties. Many other counties were carved out as settlement spread south, leaving Polk County far from its original border with California. The county has excellent grazing areas for raising cattle and sheep as well as favorable environmental conditions for the production of blueberries, cranberries, and horticultural nursery stock. History of Polk County summarized by donkelly |
