Iron County, Utah Genealogy

United States  Utah  Iron County

Parent Counties
1850--Iron County was created 31 January 1850 as an original county. County seat: Parowan

==== Neighboring Counties ====

Beaver | Garfield | Kane | Washington | Lincoln County, Nevada

Timeline History
NOTE: Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wikipedia for Iron County, Parowan, Utah and Ceder City, Utah

Notable People

Michael O. Leavitt was born and educated in Cedar City. Governor of Utah, administrator of the United States Environment Protection Agency and secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


 * 1776. Ancestors of present day Paiute Indians met the Dominguez-Escalante Expediton in this area.
 * 1851 January. First settlement at Parowan as “Iron Mission”.
 * 1851. Cedar City settled by Mormon pioneers.
 * 1858. Iron works closed, but mining continued.
 * 1900’s. Sheep and dairy industries well established.
 * 1923. Became tourist gateway with railroad connection to county.
 * 1933. Cedar Breaks National Monument established.
 * 1961. Utah Shakespeare Festivalfounded by Fred C. Adams.
 * 1964-1965. Brian Head Ski Resort opened for skiing.

Cemeteries
Iron County Cemeteries at the Utah State Historical site

The USGenWeb Archives, Iron County, Utah:


 * Kanarraville Cemetery (partial/ link not active)


 * Modena Cemetery(partial/various dates) Modena, Iron Co., Utah


 * Enoch Cemetery, Enoch BillionGraves
 * Parowan City Cemetery, Parowan BillionGraves Summit City Cemetery, Parowan BillionGraves

Cedar City Cemetery

Address: 745 North Main, Cedar City, Utah 84720 Phone: 435-586-2950

BillionGraves Google map, headstone photos, searchable database

Census
The 1850 [1851], 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Iron 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.


 * 1850 (1851)
 * 1856
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

The US GenWeb Archives, Iron County, Utah containes various pages of the following three census: (you may need to scroll up or down depending what you are looking for)


 * 1850 Census (transcribed information containing pages 18 - 23)
 * 1860 Census you will find an Index of names, comments, Hamilton's Fort, Cedar City, Parowan, and Red Creek.


 * 1870 Census you will find information on: Cedar City, Eagleville, Iron City, Paragoonah, Parowan, and Summit.

Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Cedar City
 * Cedar City 1
 * Cedar City 2
 * Cedar City 3
 * Cedar City 4
 * Cedar City 5
 * Cedar College
 * Enoch
 * Kannara
 * New Castle
 * Paragonah
 * Parowan
 * Parowan 1
 * Parowan 2
 * Parowan E.
 * Parowan W.
 * Summit

Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Iron 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
 Interesting Facts

Iron County was originally named Little Salt Lake Valley, and renamed for the iron mines west of Cedar City.

Maps
==== Migration ====

Early migration routes to and from for emigrant settlers included:


 * Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah
 * Mormon Trail to Southern California 1847 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California
 * Union Pacific Railroad 1869 Ogden, Utah (among others) to Omaha, Nebraska

Military
The USGenWeb Archives, Iron County, Utah containes World War II, Army Enlistments, 1938 - 1946.

Newspapers

 * One major resouce 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." One newspaper from Iron County is included in this digital project, the Parowan Times. 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

County Courthouse
Welcome to Iron County, Utah - Official Website

Iron County Courthouse 68 S 100 E Parowan, UT 84761

The County Courthouse in its various departments has land records, marriage records, and tax records.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Cedar City Utah Family History Center
 * Newcastle Utah Family History Center
 * Parowan Utah Family History Center

Towns and communities in this county

 * Avon
 * Beryl
 * Beryl Junction
 * Buckhorn Springs
 * Cedar City
 * Enoch
 * Gold Springs
 * Hamilton Fort
 * Heist
 * Iron Mountain


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 * Iron Springs
 * Irontown
 * Kanarraville
 * Latimer
 * Lund
 * Modena
 * Newcastle
 * North View
 * P-Hill
 * Paragonah


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 * Parowan
 * Summit
 * Uvada
 * Wheatgrass
 * Yale Crossing
 * Zane

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * CedarPix - Contains hundreds of pictures of Cedar City along with useful historical information.
 * Iron County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Iron County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)