Polk

Polk may refer to:

People

• James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States
• Polk (name), other people with the name

Places

• 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

• Polk Home, Columbia, Tennessee, sole surviving residence of U.S. President James K. Polk
• Polk Hotel, an historic hotel in Haines City, Florida

Military

• 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

• POLK, a human gene
• Polk Audio, American audio equipment manufacturer
• Polk State College, Winter Haven, Florida

See also

• Poke (disambiguation)
• Pokeweed, "Polk salad"
• Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), German artist