Polk County, Florida, USA

Polk County lies in Florida, linking established communities with the surrounding rural and suburban landscape. Bartow is the county seat, while Lakeland and Winter Haven anchor a landscape of lakes and citrus ridges. The community’s older landscape still reflects an era when Indigenous history, rail expansion, agriculture and twentieth-century migration shaped the peninsula. Tourism, health care, trade, construction, agriculture and services anchor the economy. Cultural institutions and recreation add depth to the local landscape.