Iron County, Utah Genealogy

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

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

Cemeteries
Cedar City Cemetery

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

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

Church
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

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
Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the Family Search Record Search Pilot. 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.

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
 * CedarPix - Contains hundreds of pictures of Cedar City along with useful historical information.
 * Iron County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)