Piute County, Utah Genealogy

United States  Utah  Piute County

Quick Facts
The County was named for the Paiute tribe of Native Americans.

Parent Counties

 * 1865--Piute County was created 16 January 1865 from Beaver County. County seat: Junction

Neighboring Counties
Beaver | Garfield | Sevier | Wayne

Timeline History
NOTE: Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wikipedia for Piute County.


 * 1864. Circleville was originally settled. Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, spent childhood here.
 * 1865. Piute County was created with Junction as the county seat and was named for the Paiute tribe of Native Americans.
 * 1890's -1910. Kimberly (now a ghost town) is located high in Mill Canyon on Gold Mountain (Tushar Mountains) was originally settled in the 1890's and was formerly a bustling gold mining town. In the 1930's Kimberly had a minor rebirth.
 * 1905. Dixie Forest Reserve establish.
 * 1915-1930. Alunite (now a ghost town) located some 5 miles south of Marysvale, near the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon was a small but important mining town during World War I.

Cemeteries
Piute county cemeteries at the Utah State Historical site

Mountain View Cemetery, Marysvale BillionGraves

Census
The 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Piute County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see Utah Census. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in national indexes, try checking local indexes. Created by experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than nationwide indexes.

See Utah Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.


 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Circleville
 * Junction
 * Kingston
 * Marysvale

Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Piute County Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the Family History Library Catalog at https://www.familysearch.org/. Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.

Histories
A History of Piute County online at Marriott Library Digital Archives.

Military
USGenWeb Archives, Piute County, Utah you will find transcribed information as to


 * Draft Cards - Birth Information 1917-18 - Piute County, Utah.

Newspapers

 * One major resource for newspapers throughout Utah is the University of Utah's Utah Digital Newspapers project "with more than 600,000 pages of digitized Utah historical newspapers." Three newspapers from Piute County are included in this digital project, the Marysvale Free Lance, the Piute Chieftain, and the Piute County News. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research

Vital Records
Western States Marriage Index 

Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed at https://www.familysearch.org/. Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed. A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased, date of death, and place of death, as well as the age, birthdate, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.

Utah State Burial Index for death before 1904

USGenWeb Archives, Piute County, Utah you will find the following three " Date of Deaths" or more like an obiturary for all three.


 * Baldwin, Russel Jesse, Christianson, Ida Sorenson, and Christianson, Male Stillborn

Courthouses
www.piute.org/Goverment.htm Piute County Courthouse 550 N Main Junction, UT 84740 Phone: 435-577-2840 FAX: 435-577-2433

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Circleville Utah Family History Center