Welcome to Utah County History and Genealogy!

THIS COUNTY IS UP FOR ADOPTION

This website is in need of a coordinator. If you have an interest in genealogy and a working knowledge of maintaining a website, consider volunteering to be a coordinator, contact the State Coordinator to express your interest. For more information on what is expected of a coordinator visit the USGenWeb.

If you find anything wrong with any of the pages on this site please don't hesitate to let us know. If you have Utah County related materials or access to them, consider looking up information for other researchers. If you live in the Utah County area consider taking photos of historic locations or of gravestones to be added to this site.

About Our Project

In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to create this page for all states. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for each state page. 

Utah County is a proud part of the UTGenWeb Project, and USGenWeb Project, where you can Learn more about our projects.

What's New

This county has been updated and put up for adoption.

Facts About Utah County
  • County Seat: Provo
  • Year Organized: 1849
  • Square Miles: 2,003.45
  • Originally Named: Cedar
  • Became Utah County, Utah: 3 Mar 1852
  • Cedar County: created; 5 Jan 1856-17 desolved;Jan 1862, Land was divided between Tooele County and Utah County, the records were transferred to Utah County. The Cedar County records were then transferred from Utah County to the Utah State Archives in March 2003.
    Per Laws of Utah;1855-56, p. 7; 1861-62, p. 51
  • Named for: Yuta, the Spanish name for the Ute tribe

    • Before the valley was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1840's and 1850's it was the home of the Ute Indians. They lived along the eastern shore of the lake and used fish from the lake as their main food source. These Indians were described as peaceful and kind by the Spanish Catholic priests Dominguez and Escalante, who observed them in 1776. Dominguez and Escalante were trying to find a route between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and what is now southern California. When they came down Spanish Fork Canyon in the summer of 1776 they were the first non-Indians to enter Utah Valley

    ~Roger Roper

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