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Ike Turner Camp Confederate Monument, Livingston, Texas. Polk County, named for James Knox Polk of Tennessee, President of the United States, was created by an act of the first Legislature of the State of Texas, approved on March 30, 1846, out of Liberty County, and embraced that portion from the part designated as the "Northern Division" of said county.
Livingston is a town in and the county seat of Polk County, Texas, United States. With a population of 5,640 at the 2020 census, it is the largest city in Polk County. [4] It is located approximately 46 miles (74 km) south of Lufkin and roughly 74 miles (119 km) northeast of Houston and was originally settled in 1835 as Springfield.
Category: Cities in Polk County, Texas. ... Texas This page was last edited on 17 September 2013, at 04:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
FIPS code. 48-54048 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1364545 [3] Website. City of Onalaska. Onalaska is a city in Polk County, Texas, United States. Situated on a peninsula between the main channel and one arm of Lake Livingston, the population was 3,020 at the 2020 census.
Polk County: 373: Livingston: 1846: Liberty County: James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States (1845–1849) 54,186: 1,057 sq mi (2,738 km 2) Potter County: 375: Amarillo: 1876: Bexar County: Robert Potter (1800–1842), secretary of the navy for the Republic of Texas, and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence ...
48-17036 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1355032 [3] Corrigan is a town in north central Polk County, Texas, United States. It is located along U.S. Highway 59 and is approximately 100 miles from Houston. Its population was 1,477 in the 2020 census.
The City of Seven Oaks is served by the Corrigan-Camden Independent School District and the Leggett Independent School District, each having a portion of Seven Oaks. Corrigan-Camden High School is operated by the former. The Texas Legislature designated Polk County as being in the boundary of Angelina College's district.
In 1880, with an estimated 228 residents, Moscow was the largest town in Polk County. By 1900 its population had reached 263. [3] By the 1920s, the lumber supply in East Texas began to dwindle due to overharvesting. During the Great Depression, many farmers went bankrupt and lumber companies left the area due to the economic conditions.