Welcome to Polk County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Created July 20, 1858 Named for President James K. Polk County Seat: Crookston Largest city: East Grand Forks Townships Cities Andover Township Angus Township Badger Township Belgium Township Brandsvold Township Brandt Township Brislet Township Bygland Township Chester Township Columbia Township Crookston Township Eden Township Esther Township Euclid Township Fairfax Township Fanny Township Farley Township Fisher Township Garden Township Garfield Township Gentilly Township Godfrey Township Grand Forks Township Grove Park-Tilden Township Gully Township Hammond Township Helgeland Township Higdem Township Hill River Township Hubbard Township Huntsville Township Johnson Township Kertsonville Township Keystone Township King Township Knute Township Lessor Township Liberty Township Lowell Township Nesbit Township Northland Township Onstad Township Parnell Township Queen Township Reis Township Rhinehart Township Roome Township Rosebud Township Russia Township Sandsville Township Scandia Township Sletten Township Sullivan Township Tabor Township Tynsid Township Vineland Township Winger Township Woodside Township Beltrami Climax Crookston East Grand Forks Erskine Fertile Fisher Fosston Gully Lengby McIntosh Mentor Nielsville Trail Winger  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Naturalizations Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr. 2013: Obits: Bloom, Dorsey, Fox, Hamel, Hanson, Jorgenson, Larson, Marin, Micelson, Noeseu, O'Brien, Roy, Turner Naturalization Certificate for Smedberg Marriages: Austad - Nesland; Boucher - Riopelle; Cooper - Aamoth; Hagen - Stickney; Hinderlie - Dale; Hofdahl - Skaar; Mayrand - Marlowe; McDonald - McManus; Reitmeier - Radke; Sunderland - Anderson; Torrison - Flaiskey Bio: Wroolie Oct. 2012: Obit: Nelson Marriage: Glaserud - Klepp Sept. 2012: Marriage: Backlund - Wright August 2012: Obits: Morgan, Sletten, Teal July 2012: Bios: Bronson, Carlisle, Casey June 2012: Bios: Clarke, Hoverson, Johnson May 2012: Bio: Anderson Apr. 2012: Bios: Ellington, Farly, Foskett, Gallasch, McKinnon Mar. 2012: Obits: Baird, Turner; Bio: Steenerson; Engagements: Benson-Helliwell; Marr-Hiler; Marriages: Bakke-Drydahl, Collar-Smith, Dangerfield-Kenn, Lee-Donnelly, Morrow-Morrison, Nordlund-Strutz, Ralph-Brouillard, Rolland-Dagoberg, Shannon-Fenwell, Swendson-Price; Bios: Chase, , Collins, Hagen Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; birth - Lawton; obits: Coauette, Engstrom, Flaten, Tillman; Marriage: Mahoney-LaCoe; Bios: Black, Dampier; 1860 Polk Co. census Jan 2012: Marriage announcement for BEHRNS-BREWSTER; List of Cemeteries Dec 2011: Gossip news; fire, Sp. Am. War news item Previous Updates: 1860 Federal Census Index; Bios for BJELLA, DALE, HUSBY, JORGENSON & VAATVIET SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Marshall County (north) Pennington County (northeast) Red Lake County (northeast) Clearwater County (east) Mahnomen County (southeast) Norman County (south) Traill County, ND (southwest) Grand Forks County, ND (west) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.