Welcome to the Weber County UTGenWeb
If you have information you would like to share with other researchers, or would be interested in volunteering to do look-ups, transcribe materials, take photos for use on the website, or have a general question, please send me an email.
Denise Wells, Weber County Coordinator
NEW! Twenty new biographies have been added to the Biographies & Obituaries page. Scroll down to Biographies on Site and the title links to the new page.
NEW! Under County History link above, Chapter XXII of the History of Utah has been added at the time of Weber and other counties being created.
NEW! Under Bibliography link above, links to the 4 Volume set of History of Utah has been added. Books are housed on Archive.org.
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A Brief County History... see also County History above for more...
Weber County was formed in 1850, named after the Weber River and for John Henry Weber (1779–1859), a fur trapper and trader in the area in the mid-1820s. Historically Weber County stretched from the California, Oregon, Utah Territory border in the north west, to the current boundary in the south east. As Nevada and the State of Utah evolved, Weber County shrunk to its current size. The county extends from high in the Wasatch Range in the east into a portion of the Great Salt Lake to the west. The Weber and Ogden rivers and their tributaries run through its valleys. Cache National Forest is a national protected area in the county.
Adjacent Counties
Box Elder County
(northwest)
Cache County
(north)
Rich County (northeast)
Morgan County (south)
Davis County (south)
Tooele County (southwest)
Notable Residents
Hal Ashby - Academy Award winning film director
Herbert B. Maw - Utah governor
Jefferson Hunt - Founder of Huntsville
David O. McKay - American religious leader
Olene Walker -
Utah governor
Rodney Bagley - Inventor of the catalytic converter
John Moses Browning - Inventor & firearms designer
J. Willard Marriott - Businessman
Tom Chambers - Basketball player
Wataru Misaka - Basketball player
Red Nichols - Jazz Musician
The Osmond family - Entertainers
David Eccles - Businessman
Fawn M. Brodie - biographer
Solon Borglum - sculptor
Bernard DeVoto - historian
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