Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah Genealogy

Quick History
Spanish Fork Utah is nestled at the south end of Utah County and against the Wasatch Mountain Range on the East. First explored by two Franciscan Friars named Silvestre Valez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio de Dominguez. The name "Spanish Fork" appeared many years later on John C. Fremont's map of the area published in 1845. .

Timeline

 * 1850: Enoch Reece settled the first home, followed by Charles Ferguson and George Sevey.
 * 1852: 100 families had settled along the Spanish Fork River
 * 1852: Latter-day Saints founded a settlement called Palmyra west of the historic center of Spanish Fork
 * 1853: A fort was established called “Fort Luke” at the base of Spanish Fork Canyon

Biography and Histories

 * Daughters of Utah Pioneers
 * Early Latter Day Saints - A Mormon Trail Pioneer Database
 * Family History Archives, BYU has digitized thousands of personal histories available at this searchable site.
 * Heart Throbs of the West
 * Mormons and their Neighbors Database of over 100,000 biographical sketches in the Western United States.
 * Our Pioneer Heritage
 * Personal History Collections
 * Pioneers and prominent men of Utah: comprised of photographs, genealogies, biographies, the early history of the LDS Church 
 * Sons of Utah Pioneers Stories
 * Spanish Fork, city on the Rio de Aguas Caliente
 * The History of Spanish Fork
 * Immigration to Utah and Early Settlement of Spanish Fork. Fred Woods, Immigration to Utah and Early Settlement of Spanish Fork in Fire on Ice: The Story of Icelandic Latter-day Saints at Home and Abroad, (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005), 31–46.

Spanish Fork City Cemetery
Located at 420 South 400 East, Spanish Fork


 * Spanish Fork Cemetery


 * Cemetery Sexton: Chad Daybell


 * City Cemetery Records Building
 * 420 South 400 East, Spanish Fork
 * Office 801-798-5020, Cell 801-318-5476
 * Email cdaybell@spanishfork.org


 * Cemetery Records: Marty Warren


 * Spanish Fork City Office Building
 * 40 South Main Street, Suite 120
 * Office 801-804-4507
 * Email mwarren@spanishfork.org


 * Veterans Memorial

Information about the Spanish Fork Cemetery

 * Cemetery deeds, 1866-1978

Cemetery deeds, v. A-B 1886-1924 Cemetery deeds, v. C-D (p. 1-235) 1924-1946 Cemetery deeds, v. D-2 (p. 236-end), v. E-1 (p. 1-250) Cemetery deeds, v. E-2 (p. 251-end), v. F-G 1962-1978


 * Cemetery records, 1866-1898
 * Spanish Fork City Cemetery records, Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah
 * Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah, cemetery records
 * Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah cemetery records, 1952-58
 * Spanish Fork Cemetery and High Priests Quorum Records High Priests records (includes genealogies, deaths, quorum records, 1866-1898) Cemetery records: A-Z, Dates up to 1960 Early cemetery records. Early cemetery records: Miscellaneous cemetery records (includes some disinterment’s and records from the Upper Grave Yard or Redd's Grave Yard)

Spanish Fork Pioneer Cemetery

 * Pioneer Heritage Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah
 * Pioneers buried in Spanish Fork City

Mill Fork Cemetery
This cemetery is technically associated with Thistle, a town that was destroyed in 1984 after a landslide created a dam in Spanish Fork Canyon following a very wet winter and rapid spring warming which caused fast snow melt, which flooded out both east and south of the present-day junction for US-89 at US-6, and the cemetery was before the flooding more off the old highway alignment for US 6 which ran south and below where it does now, the new road put the cemetery within easy access for those seeking to find graves within it.


 * Mill Fork Cemetery

Transcription &amp; Gravestone Projects

 * BillionGraves
 * Findagrave.com
 * Utah Gravestone Photo Project

Church History and Records

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

A Record of the Spanish Fork Utah Stake in the year 1980 : including a brief history from its organization in 1956 Spanish Fork Utah Stake includes areas of Spanish Fork and the towns of Salem, Thistle, and Birdseye.


 * 1) Leland
 * 2) Spanish Fork
 * 3) Spanish Fork 1
 * 4) Spanish Fork 2
 * 5) Spanish Fork 3
 * 6) Spanish Fork 4
 * 7) Spanish Fork 5

Directories

 * Provo City and Utah County Directory : including the cities of Provo, American Fork, Lehi, Payson, Spanish Fork, and Springville Library has 1891 (film), 1904-05 (film), 1913-14, 1915-16, 1917-18, 1920, 1926 (film), 1930-31, 1935-36, 1941, 1946, 1950, 1955, 1961, 1965, 1969-70, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1996-.

Newspapers

 * 1895 - 1910 Spanish Fork Herald
 * 1898 - 1908 Utah County Democrat
 * 1902 - Current Spanish Fork Press

Spanish Fork Press (Spanish Fork, Utah) : the home of pride and progress From 1972, some additions may be missing.

Vital Records

 * parent counties

Marriage Records

 * Marriage information may be located at the Western States Marriage Database searchable by bride or groom.

Death Records

 * Utah Death Index 1905-1951 Hint Keyword: enter the year of death and enter the name of county if known.
 * Social Security Death Index, begins in about 1962 and is current to within two months.
 * Utah Death Record 1888-1946.
 * Utah Department of Archives 1903 to 50 years ago Choices of search types - name, date of death (year, month, day, or any combination) and county. Images of actual death certificates