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Former. Pre‑1945. Toll. Scenic. ← SR 569. → SR 573. State Road 570 ( SR 570 ), also known as the Polk Parkway, is a 24-mile (39 km) controlled-access toll road which runs through Polk County, Florida. It is operated as part of Florida's Turnpike Enterprise system of tolled freeways. The Polk Parkway mainly serves as a beltway around ...
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (in case citations, N.D. Fla.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit ). The District was established on February 23, 1847, with the division ...
Lakeland Senior High School (Florida) / 28.03500°N 81.94056°W / 28.03500; -81.94056. Lakeland Senior High School, opened in 1902, is the oldest public high school in Lakeland, Florida, United States. The school was originally located on North Florida Avenue and was destroyed by fire in 1927. [3] It is part of Polk County Public Schools.
Polk County’s Utilities Division is launching a new online customer access portal on Aug. 28. The current portal will go offline Aug. 24 at 5 p.m.
Website. www .polk-county .net. Polk County ( / poʊk /) is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. The county population was 725,046, as of the 2020 census, and estimated to be 818,330, as of July 1, 2023. [1] Its county seat is Bartow, [2] and its largest city is Lakeland .
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Anne Gibson, the Polk Sheriff's Office legal affairs director, to fill an opening on the Polk County Court.
Before 1965, Polk County maintained two separate school systems, one for white students, and a separate system for non-white students. In 1963, a group of parents of Black students attempted to have their children admitted to the all-white schools. When their applications were denied by the school board, they filed suit in federal district court.
There are 20 judicial circuits in Florida, all but five of which span multiple counties. They are: [4] First Circuit – Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton. Second Circuit – Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, and Wakulla. Third Circuit – Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor.