Desert County, Nevada Genealogy

United States Nevada  Desert County

Desert County, Utah was created 3 March 1852 as an original county of Utah Territory. She extended into present-day Nevada from the shore of the Great Salt Lake on the east to the western edge of the Great Basin in California at first between Weber and Tooele counties. Desert County was reduced in size to the current western Utah border by carving out three new counties: Carson, Humboldt, and Saint Mary's County (now Nevada) on 5 January 1856. Desert County was extinguished 17 January 1862 and her remaining land was split between Box Elder and Tooele counties.

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