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Polk County, Oregon. / 44.91°N 123.42°W / 44.91; -123.42. Polk County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 87,433. [1] The county seat is Dallas. [2] The county is named for James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States.
The Polk County Itemizer-Observer is a weekly newspaper published in Dallas, Oregon, United States, and covering Dallas, Monmouth, Independence, Falls City and the surrounding area. It was established in 1875. [1] The Itemizer-Observer is published on Wednesdays and its circulation is 3,550. [1] It is the newspaper of record for Polk County.
Website. www .dallasor .gov. Dallas is a city and the county seat of Polk County, Oregon, United States. The population was 16,854 at the 2020 census. [ 6] Dallas is along Rickreall Creek, about 15 miles (24 km) west of Salem, at an elevation of 325 feet (99 m) above sea level. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, Oregon is home to over 2,000, and 34 of those are found in Polk County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 19, 2024.
Salt Creek, Oregon. Coordinates: 44.995672°N 123.352883°W. Salt Creek is an unincorporated historic community in Polk County, Oregon, United States on Oregon Route 22 about six miles northwest of Dallas. As an early European American settlement of the Oregon Country, the cemetery at Salt Creek has graves dating back to 1847. [1]
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site, also known as Helmick Park, is a state park located south of Monmouth, in Polk County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the floodplain of the Luckiamute River and is forested by Bigleaf Maple, Douglas-fir, and Black Cottonwood trees, among other varieties.
Rickreall Creek is a stream in Polk County, Oregon, United States rising on Laurel Mountain in the Central Oregon Coast Range and draining into the Willamette River west of Salem at Eola. [1] The creek passes through the city of Dallas and the unincorporated community of Rickreall. The origin of the name is under some dispute, but one theory ...
Polk County was named for the President and the city of Dallas memorializes his Vice-President. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .