page_title: Polk County, Tennessee
section_title: Adjacent counties
hierarchical_section_title: Polk County, Tennessee / Geography / Adjacent counties
caption_attribution_description: The Ocoee Scenic Byway, the first national forest byway in the nation, winds through the Cherokee National Forest.
context_page_description: Polk County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2018 census estimate, the population was 16,898. Its county seat is Benton. The county was created on November 28, 1839, from parts of Bradley and McMinn counties. The county was named after then-governor James K. Polk.
  Polk County is included in the Cleveland, Tennessee, metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL Combined Statistical Area.
context_section_description: Monroe County (northeast)
  Cherokee County, North Carolina (east)
  Fannin County, Georgia (southeast)
  Murray County, Georgia (southwest)
  Bradley County (west)
  McMinn County (northwest)
caption: View from the Ocoee Scenic Byway
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