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Polk County is Florida's 39^th county, established on February 8, 1861, from segments of Brevard County and Hillsborough County. It gains its name from James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11^th President of the United States (1845-1849). Bartow is the county seat. Bartow was named after Confederate General Francis F. Bartow, who was the first general officer of either side to fall during the Civil War.

For earlier maps of this area, visit the Brevard County and Hillsborough County map galleries.

	1873, Map of Florida.
	1874, Drew's New Map of the State of Florida, published by Columbus Drew, Jacksonville.
	1877, Map of Florida that was, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1877 by Asher and Adams...."
	1880, Map of Florida.
	1880, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1882, Colton & Company map.
	1883, Phillips and Hunt map.
	1886, Geo.F.Cram Engraver & Publisher map.
	1888, A new sectional map of Florida issued by the land department of the South Florida R.R. Co. and the Plant Investment Co., Sanford, Florida.
	1888, "New sectional map of the eastern and southeastern portion of the state of Florida. Issued by the land department of the Florida Southern Railway Company. Showing the lands, owned and offered for sale by said department."
	1888, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1890, George F. Cram map.
	1890, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1890s, Map of Florida created during the 1890s that also indicates train routes of various rail companies.
	1892, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1893, George F. Cram map.
	1894, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1897, The Century Atlas.
	1898, John W. Iliff and Company map.
	1898, Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Business Atlas Map of Florida.
	1899, Published by George F. Cram, Chicago.
	1900, Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick map.
	1900, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1900, Unrivaled Atlas of the World, published by Philadephia Public Ledger.
	1902, George F. Cram map.
	1904, Wagner & Debes Geog. Estab. Leipzig; published in Baedeker's "The United States with an Excursion into Mexico."
	1904, Tunison's map.
	1907, Dodd, Meed and Company map.
	1910, Hammond map.
	1910, Rand-McNally.
	1911, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1914, Collier map.
	1916, National Map Company map.
	1916, The New Reference Atlas of the World, published by C. S. Hammond & Company.
	1917, Rand, McNally & Company map.
	1920, US Railroad Administration map.
	1921, L.L. Poates Co. map.
	1932, United States Geological Survey.

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