Polk
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Polk may refer to:
People
[edit]- James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States
- Polk (name), other people with the name
Places
[edit]- Polk (CTA), a train station in Chicago, Illinois
- Polk, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Polk, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Polk, Nebraska, a village
- Polk, Ohio, a village
- Polk, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Polk, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Polk, Wisconsin, a town
- Polk City, Florida, a city
- Polk City, Iowa, a city
- Polk County (disambiguation)
- Polk Street, San Francisco
- Polk Township (disambiguation)
Historic structures
[edit]- Polk Home, Columbia, Tennessee, sole surviving residence of U.S. President James K. Polk
- Polk Hotel, an historic hotel in Haines City, Florida
Military
[edit]- Camp Polk (Oregon), a former military installation
- Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, a United States Army base in Leesville, Louisiana
- Polk (Cyrillic script: полк), Eastern European military division that corresponds to regiment; polk is headed by polkovnik
- Polk is a root segment in a Slavic words "opolchenie" where phoneme k switches to ch, while the word means militia
Other uses
[edit]- POLK, a human gene
- Polk Audio, American audio equipment manufacturer
- Polk State College, Winter Haven, Florida
See also
[edit]- Poke (disambiguation)
- Pokeweed, "Polk salad"
- Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), German artist