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Box Elder County, Utah
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Location in the state of Utah
Location of Utah in the U.S.
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Founded	January 5, 1856
County Seat	Brigham City
Courthouse
Address	County Courthouse 1 South Main St. Brigham City, UT 84302
Website: www.boxeldercounty.org
Named for: the many box elder trees in the area, Latin: Acer_negundo [2]
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Contents 1 Resources 1.1 Bible Records 1.2 Biography 1.3 Business Records and Commerce 1.4 Cemeteries 1.5 Census 1.6 Church Records 1.7 Court Records 1.8 Directories 1.9 Ethnic and Other Groups 1.10 Gazetteers 1.11 Genealogy 1.12 History 1.12.1 History Timeline 1.13 Land 1.14 Maps 1.15 Migration 1.16 Military 1.17 Naturalization and Citizenship 1.18 Newspapers 1.19 Obituaries 1.20 Officials and Employees 1.21 Periodicals 1.22 Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. 1.23 Probate 1.24 Public Records 1.25 Resource Repositories 1.25.1 Courthouses 1.25.2 Family History Centers 1.25.3 Libraries 1.25.4 Societies 1.26 Taxation 1.27 Vital Records 1.27.1 Birth 1.27.2 Marriage 1.27.3 Death 1.28 Voting Registers 2 Towns and Communities 3 References

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

• History of Box Elder County ^[3]
• Box Elder County, Utah newspaper card index historical, biographical, vital records

Newspaper card index to births, deaths, divorces, marriages, and subject index, 1890-1915 ^[4]

Newspaper card index, locality index ^[5] 

Newspaper card index, biographies ^[6] 

Newspaper card index, subject and vital record index - Corinne newspapers, 1869-1875 ^[7]

• Biographies. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Business Records and Commerce

• Business records and commerce. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Cemeteries

List of Box Elder County, Utah Cemeteries that exist or in some cases no longer exist.

• Box Elder County Cemeteries at the Utah State Historical site
• Cemetery records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• USGenWeb Archives Box Elder County, Utah provides names in Plymouth Cemetery and Woodmen of the World of Box Elder County.
• The city of Howell Utah has a very nice cemetery it is on the main road that leads to the Howell church from highway 83. It is on the South side of the road and is easy to find.
• There is an other cemetery in Howell we call it the baby cemetery it is on the road the leads to the head of the creek. It is about two hundred yards North of where Rex Nesson lives and is about one hundred yards east of the road. This cemetery is quite old and there are about six graves there. *Tremonton has a large cemetery in town. A large cemetery there is the Riverview Cemetery, while a smaller one just outside of town is the Salt Creek Cemetery.

BillionGraves:

• Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton
• Salt Creek Cemetery, Tremonton
• Valleyview Cemetery, Tremonton

Census

The 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Box Elder 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.

• 1856
• 1860
• 1870
• 1880
• 1890
• 1900
• 1910
• 1920
• 1930
  
• Censuses. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Church Records

Church records are usually found in the towns rather than on the county level. However histories of churches on the county level are listed in the Family History Library Catalog. Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Box Elder County Wards and Branches can also be found by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.

• Church records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Court Records

• Court records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• Current records may be at the Box Elder County Justice Court. Phone: 435-734-3390

Directories

• Directories. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Ethnic and Other Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

• Google Books has several online history books about Box Elder County.
• Histories. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

History Timeline

NOTE: Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wikipedia for Box Elder County.

• 1800’s- The Bear River Valley was originally inhabited by the Fremont and Shoshoni Indians. Then French-Canadian trappers entered the valley.
• 1851. First permanent homes in county at site of present Brigham City
• 1851. Willard settled by Mormon settlers.
• 1852. Perry was settled by Orrin Porter Rockwell. Early name was Three Mile Cre
• 1853. Lorenzo Snow created first self-sufficient city (present-day Brigham City)
• 1856. Box Elder County formed
• 1861. Honeyville settled. Agricultural community.
• 1863. Mantua settled by Danish families called by authorities of L.D.S. Church to settle in valley.
• 1864. Deweyville settled by William Empey.
• 1868. Elwood settled by homesteaders and families with "squatter rights."
• 1869 May. Golden spike driven at Promontory Summit to connect Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
• 1869. Plymouth founded.  Named for imagined resemblance of nearby large rock to the Plymouth Rock.
• 1869. Corinne laid out by Union Pacific and settled by people of different religions.
• 1871. Snowville settled at direction of Brigham Young.  Named after Mormon Apostle Lorenzo Snow.
• 1886. Bear River City incorporated.
• 1890. Penrose named for Mormon Apostle Charles W. Penrose. Lush grass and watering places for herds of deer and tribes of Indians.
• 1892. Town of Fielding erected. Named after Mary Fielding Smith..
• 1929.  Elwood established.  Early name was Manila Ward.
• 1940’s. Economic boost during WWII, with creation of Bushnell General Hospital
• 1950-1960’s. Major growth in county, with Thiokol plant built in 1957

Land

• Land records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• Indian Land Records, 1884-1930. FHL Film: 480866 Item 5

Maps

For historical maps of Utah and Box Elder County, see:

• David Rumsey Collection for Utah
• Perry-Castaneda Map Collection for Utah
• 1876 Utah Map  Box Elder County is in the upper left corner
• Historical Maps of Utah has several maps of Utah counties
• 1895 U S Atlas of Box Elder County

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Box Elder County, Utah for emigrant settlers included: :

• California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California^[8] 
• Mormon Trail 1848 to 1869 from Iowa to Utah^[9] 
• Central Pacific Railroad since 1869 from Ogden, Utah to Sacramento, California^[10]

Military

• Military records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• Casualties from Box Elder County in World War II (Army and Air Force)

Naturalization and Citizenship

• Naturalization and Citizenship records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Newspapers

Small town newspapers contain obituaries, birth or death notices, community news (such as the visit of someone's relatives), legal notices and provide historical content. See Utah newspapers for tips, resources, and details.

• Utah Digital Newspapers Project presents newspaper images online. Search All Newspapers by name or keywords, or Browse by County to view all newspapers digitized for Box Elder County, Utah.
  
  • Box Elder News and Corinne Reporter, covering 1871-1926 are included.
• Newspapers. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• Existing copies of newspapers. newspapers for Box Elder County, Utah] are listed in Chronicling America by Library of Congress (LOC).
  

 

Obituaries

• Obituaries. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• USGenWeb Archives Box Elder County, Utah contains the obituaries of 2002-2005 from Box Elder Journal
  

Officials and Employees

• Records of Officials and employees. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Periodicals

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

In Utah, such records may be difficult to find. Try records of the church they may have attended. Realize, however, that such records may have not been preserved, and would not be in the typical records of membership.

It is possible there were records kept by civilian authorities. Ask town or county officials and local librarians and the State Archives. Also try National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (online).

Probate

• Probate records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Public Records

• Public records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• An online collection is linked to and described on Utah, Box Elder County Records

Resource Repositories

Courthouses

Address: 1 South Main St, Brigham City, UT 84302
Phone (Brigham City): 435-734-3300
Phone (Tremonton): 435-257-5810
Hours: 8am - 5pm Monday - Friday
  Box Elder County Home Page History of the Box Elder County Courthouse

County seat: Brigham City

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Brigham City Utah Family History Center
• Tremonton-Garland Utah Family History Center

Libraries

• Items about archives and libraries. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

• Brigham City Library :26 East Forest Street :Brigham City, UT 84302 :Phone: (435) 723-5850  (435) 723-5850 *Garland Public Library :86 West Factory Rd :Garland, UT 84312 :Phone: (435) 257-3117 (435) 257-3117
• Tremonton City Library :210 North Tremont Street :Tremonton, UT 84337 :Phone: (435) 257-2690

Societies

Taxation

• Taxation records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Vital Records

Birth

Marriage

• 1887-1942 Western States Marriage Index. Includes Box Elder County 1887-1942.^[11]

Death

• Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed at https://www.familysearch.org/ . 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.
• Utah State Burial Index for death before 1904
• Utah State Vital Records :Utah Department of Health Office of Vital Records & Statistics :P.O. Box 141010 :Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-1010 :Phone: (801) 538-6101
• Box Elder County Utah Vital Records :Box Elder County Clerk :1 S Main Street :Brigham City, UT 84302 :Phone: (435) 734-3388
• First District Court (Divorce Records) :43 North Main :P.O. Box 873 :Brigham City, UT 84302-0873 :Phone: (435) 734-4600 Fax: (435) 734-4610
  
• Vital records. of Box Elder County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.
• USGenWeb Archives Box Elder County, Utah provides the Death Certificates of 1903-1908

Death Record Substitutes

• 1870 - U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 at Ancestry ($). Includes 1870 Box Elder County, Utah mortality schedule.
  

Voting Registers

Towns and Communities

References

v • d • e Municipalities and communities of Box Elder County, Utah County seat: Brigham City Cities Bear River City · Brigham City · Corinne · Garland · Honeyville · Perry · Tremonton · Willard Towns Deweyville · Elwood · Fielding · Howell · Mantua · Plymouth · Snowville · Snowville Communities Bothwell · Bradford · Cedar Creek · Cedar Springs · Collinston · Cropley · Crossroads · Crystal Springs · Curlew Junction · Etna · Evans · Grouse Creek · Grouse Creek Juction · Hardup · Hogup · Lakeside · Lampo Junction · Lynn · Madsen · Matlin · Midlake · Nerve · Park Valley · Penrose · Pigeon · Riverside · Rosette · Rozel · Saline · South Willard · Standrod · Thatcher · Tresend · Wheelon Historical Communities Blue Creek · Cedar Creek · Golden · Kelton · Lucin · Promontory · Russian Settlement · Terrace · Washakie · Yost Indian Reservation Northwestern Shoshone Neighboring Counties Cache · Davis · Tooele · Weber Idaho County: Cassia · Oneida Nevada County: Elko

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