Utah County, Utah Genealogy

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County Courthouse
100 East Center Street Provo, Utah 84606

Quick History
Wikipedia

Named for the Ute Indians, Spanish word Yuta.

Parent County
3 March 1852: Utah County was created from the Utah Territory.

Cities
Alpine | American Fork | Cedar Hills | Draper | Eagle Mountain | Elk Ridge | Highland | Lehi | Lindon | Mapleton | Orem | Payson | Pleasant Grove | Provo | Salem | Santaquin | Saratoga Springs | Spanish Fork | Springville

Towns
Cedar Fort | Fairfield | Genola | Goshen | Vineyard | Woodland Hills

Census Designation Places
Benjamin | Elberta | Lake Shore | Palmyra | Spring Lake | West Mountain

Ghost towns
Colton | Forest City | Mill Fork | Mosida | Thistle | Tucker

Neighboring Counties
Carbon | Duchesne | Juab | Salt Lake | Sanpete | Tooele | Wasatch

Cemeteries
Alpine City Cemetery: 200 E. 350 N. Alpine, Utah, 84004 American Fork Cemetery: 100 East 650 North, American Fork, Utah, 84003 Highland City Cemete ry: 11000 North (SR 92) 6200 West, Highland, Utah, 84003 Lehi City Cemetery: 1100 North 400 East, Lehi, Utah, 84043 Lindon City Cemetery 600 N. 200 E. Lindon, Utah 84042 Orem City Cemetery website database 1520 N. 800 E. Orem, Utah 84097 Pleasant Grove Cemetery 100 E. 500 N. Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062 Provo City Cemetery 610 S. State St. Provo, Utah 84606 East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery 4800 N. 650 E. Provo, Utah 84601 Timpanogos Memorial Gardens 185 E. Center Provo, Utah 84601

A link which gives maps to other Utah county cemetery locations giving longitude and latitudes. A helpful link for locating cemeteries and viewing gravestones is www.utahgravestones.org

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Birdseye
 * Bonneville
 * Cedar Valley
 * Dividend
 * Elberta
 * Garden Park
 * Geneva (Orem)
 * Grove
 * Highland (Alpine)
 * Knightsville
 * Lake Shore
 * Lake View
 * Lehi
 * Lehi 1
 * Lehi 2
 * Lehi 3
 * Lehi 4
 * Lehi 5
 * Leland
 * Lindon
 * Lindon 1
 * Lindon 2
 * Manila
 * Mapleton
 * Monument Park
 * Mountainville
 * Palmyra
 * Park (Payson)
 * Payson
 * Payson 1
 * Payson 2
 * Payson 3
 * Payson 4
 * Pleasant Grove
 * Pleasant Grove 1
 * Pleasant Grove 2
 * Pleasant Grove 3
 * Salem


 * Santaquin
 * Santaquin 1
 * Santaquin 2
 * Sharon (Orem)
 * Soldier
 * Summit
 * Spanish Fork
 * Spanish Fork 1
 * Spanish Fork 2
 * Spanish Fork 3
 * Spanish Fork 4
 * Spanish Fork 5
 * Spring Lake
 * Thistle
 * Timpanogos (Orem)
 * Utah Stake
 * Vermont (Orem)
 * Vineyard (Orem)
 * Windsor

Local Histories
A copy of the History of Highland City is available at the Highland City offices. Ph. (801)756-5751.

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." One newspaper from Utah County is included in this digital project, the Provo Daily Enquirer. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.

Obituaries

 * The Utah Valley Obituary Index has indexed obituaries from most Utah County newspapers. Each can be found at the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU.

Societies and Libraries.
Birgham Young University Family History Library Phone Number: (801)422-6200 Web Page: www.lib.byu.edu/fslab Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Fri. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. 2nd &amp; 4th Sun. 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog