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

Communities
Birdseye | Dividend |

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

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

Cemeteries
Please refer to the populated places for the information about the cemeteries in these places.

Census
1850 (actually 1851)


 * 1) UTGenWeb

1856


 * 1) "Utah Census Returns" Historical Department of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * 2) Index (Index Publishing)
 * 3) Index (AIS)

1860


 * 1) UTGenWeb
 * 2) FamilySearch Index

1870


 * 1) FamilySearch Browse Unindexed Images

1880


 * 1) FamilySearch No Images

1890 1900


 * 1) FamilySearch FamilySearch Index

1910 1920


 * 1) Gserver.com

1930

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Garden Park
 * Knightsville
 * Monument Park
 * Soldier

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.

Web Sites

 * The Utah County UTGenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Utah County
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Utah County. (Backup site)
 * FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Utah County