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Emery County, Utah
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Founded	information needed
County Seat	Castle Dale
Courthouse
Address	95 East Main Street Castle Dale, UT 84513-0629 Phone: 435-381-2119 FAX: 435-381-5183
Website: www.emerycounty.com
Named for: George W. Emery, governor of Utah Territory in 1875[2]
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Contents 1 Helpful Facts 1.1 County Courthouse 1.2 Parent Counties 1.3 Neighboring Counties 2 Resources 2.1 Bible Records 2.2 Biography 2.3 Business Records and Commerce 2.4 Cemeteries 2.5 Census 2.6 Churches and Religious Groups 2.7 Court Records 2.8 Description and Travel 2.9 Directories 2.10 Ethnic and Other Groups 2.11 Funeral Homes 2.12 Gazetteers 2.13 Genealogy 2.14 History 2.14.1 Local Histories 2.15 Land and Property 2.16 Maps 2.17 Migration 2.18 Military 2.19 Naturalization and Citizenship 2.20 Newspapers 2.21 Obituaries 2.22 Periodicals 2.23 Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. 2.24 Probate Records 2.25 Public Records 2.26 Resource Repositories = 2.26.1 Archives 2.26.2 Courthouses 2.26.3 Family History Centers 2.26.4 Libraries 2.26.5 Museums 2.26.6 Societies 2.27 Taxation 2.28 Vital Records 2.28.1 Birth 2.28.1.1 Before 1880 2.28.1.2 1880-1897 2.28.1.3 1898-present 2.28.2 Marriage 2.29 Death 2.30 Voting Registers 3 Towns and Communities 4 References

Helpful Facts

County Courthouse

Emery County Courthouse
95 East Main Street
Castle Dale, Ut 84513
Phone: 435-381-5106

County Clerk has marriage records from 1888.
State Court has divorce, probate and court records.
County Recorder has land records.^[3]

Parent Counties

Emery County, Utah was created February 12, 1880 from: Sanpete and Sevier

Before the county was created—and perhaps until the newly-formed county was fully operational—search records of the parent counties.

Neighboring Counties

Emery County, Utah is surrounded by: Carbon | Grand | San Juan | Sanpete | Sevier | Uintah | Wayne

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

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

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

Castle Dale City Cemetery 750 North Center Street Castle Dale, Utah 84513	Clawson Cemetery Highway 10 (5 miles south of Clawson) Clawson, Utah 84516	Cleveland Town Cemetery 300 North 600 East Cleveland, Utah 84518
Elmo Cemetery 200 South 500 East Elmo, Utah 84521	Emery Town Cemetery 75 South Center Street Emery, Utah 84522	Ferron City Cemetery 300 East 200 North (Cemetery Road) Ferron, Utah 84523
Green River Cemetery Green River, Utah 84525	Huntington City Cemetery 400 West 575 North Huntington, Utah 84528	Lawrence Cemetery Cemetery Road Lawrence, Utah 84528
Molen Cemetery Molen Road Ferron, Utah 84523	Muddy Creek Cemetery Emery, Utah 84513	Orangeville Cemetery 1300 West Cemetery Road Orangeville, Utah 84537
Ridge Cemetery Utah 84513	Tucker Family Cemetery Airport Road Utah	Victor Cemetery Utah 84513
Wilsonville Cemetery	Woodside Cemetery Woodside, Utah

• The Emery County Cemetery Information page on the Emery County Website contains links to burial information and maps for the following cemeteries: Castle Dale, Clawson, Cleveland, Desert Lake, Elgin, Elmo, Emery, Ferron, Green River Pioneer, Huntington, Lawrence, Molen, Muddy Creek, Old Emery, Orangeville, Ridge, Tucker Family, Victor, Wilsonville, and Woodside.

• Find A Grave.com has burial information for the following Emery County cemeteries: Castle Dale, Clawson, Cleveland,Crandall Canyon Mine, Elmo, Emery, Ferron, Green River, Huntington, Lawrence, Molen, Muddy Creek, Old Emery, Orangeville, Ridge, Victor, and Woodside.

• The Utah Cemetery and Burial Database on the Utah State History Website contains burial information for the following Emery County cemeteries: Castle Dale, Clawson, Cleveland, Desert Lake, Elmo, Emery, Ferron, Green River, Huntington, Lawrence, Molen, Muddy Creek, Orangeville, Ridge, Tucker Family, Victor, Wilsonville, and Woodside.

• USGenWeb Archives, Emery County, Utah (Woodside Cemetery - no link); Ferron City, Utah (1 of 2)

• USGenWeb Archives, Emery County, Utah Farron City Utah ( 2 of 2)

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

Census

The 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Emery 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.

• 1880
• 1890
• 1900
• 1910
• 1920
• 1930

Churches and Religious Groups

LDS Ward and Branch Records

Castle Dale	Clawson	Cleveland	Elmo	Emery
Ferron	Green River	Huntington	Huntington 1	Huntington 2
Lawrence	Mohrland	Molen	Orangeville	Rochester
Victor

Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Emery County Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the Family History Library Catalog. Or 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 Emery County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Court Records

• Court Records. of Emery County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

7th District Court (Carbon, Emery, Grand & San Juan Counties)
149 East 100 South
Price, Utah 84501

The Clerk of the 7th District Court has court and divorce records from 1896-1986, and naturaliztion records from 1904-1942.

Emery County District Court
1850 North 560 West
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-2619
Fax: 435-381-5625

Emery County Justice Court
1850 North 560 West
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-5194
Fax: 435-381-5196

Emery County Justice Court - Green River
48 Farrer Street
Green River, Utah 84525
Phone: 435-564-3204
Fax: 435-564-8322

Emery County Juvenile Court
1850 North 560 West
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-5311
Fax: 435-381-5625

Description and Travel

• Description and Travel information. of Emery County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Directories

Ethnic and Other Groups

Funeral Homes

Fausett Mortuary^[4]
710 North Center Street
Castle Dale,UT 84513
Phone:435-381-2551
Fax: 435-637-6995

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

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

"Emery County was established in 1880 and named in honor of George W. Emery, territorial governor of Utah, 1875-1880. Originally, the proposed name was Castle County, but it was decided that honoring the governor was more important. Emery County is the only county in Utah named in honor of a Utah state governor." ^[5]

The San Rafael region dates back thousands of years to include people of the Desert Archaic Culture.
Early explorers, both Spanish and American traversed the Uintah Basin from 1776 to the mid 1850’s. Notably Kit Carson was the first government explorer to the valley. Railroad engineers also came to the valley looking for a route for the Pacific Railroad.

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

History Timeline

• 1776   Silvestre Velez de Escalante crossed northern Utah through the Uintah Basin
• 1809   First Americans to come to Castle Valley were the “Lost Trappers”, James Workman and William Spencer.
• 1830   William Wilfskill came to the Castle Valley along the Spanish Trail
• 1840’s-1850’s   Government explorers sent to the Castle Valley area. Kit Carson was one of those sent.
• 1853 John W. Gunnison, an Army Topographical Engineer, commissioned by Sec. of War Jefferson Davis,came through Castle Valley looking for route for Pacific Railroad.
• 1853-1854  John C Fremont, another government explorer came to the Castle Valley area.
• 1875 Livestock growers from Sanpete County brought cattle and sheep into Castle Valley to graze and recognized the settlement potential of the region.
• 1875   Livestock growers from Sanpete County brought cattle and sheep into Castle Valley to graze
• 1877   Young Mormon families began moving to settle the Castle Valley area.
• 1877 – Families began moving in to the valley to take up homestead.
• 1877, August – Brigham Young President of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued an order for 50 families from Sanpete to located in Castle Valley
• 1879 – Most of the lands had been taken up.
• 1880, February – County was created by the Utah Territorial Legislature.
• 1880   Emery County was created by Utah Territorial Legislature
• 1880’s   Early in the decade, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, using the alternative route,came through the eastern edge of Emery County and was of great benefit to the town of Green River.
• 1890 Grand County was created 13 March 1890  from parts of Emery and Uintah Counties.
• 1894 Carbon County was created 8 March 1894  from parts of Emery and Uintah Counties.
• 1933 – Due to the Depression, Civilian Conservation Corp camps began to be constructed. First was in Joes Valley in Mary
• 1935 – Permanent camp established near Ferron and the second camp was established at Castle Dale.
• 1938 - Camp established at Green River.
• 1970’s – Population expanded considerably due to construction of large coal-fired power plants in Castle Dale and Huntington.
• 1900   Population of Emery County had reached 4,600 people, with over 450 farms in operation.

Local Histories

• Emery County Historical Society. Emery County, 1880-1980. [Castle Dale, Utah]: Emery County Historical Society, 1981.

• Geary, Edward A. A History of Emery County. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Historical Society, 1981. Also online at Marriott Library Digital Collections.

• Geary, Edward A. "History Written on the Land in Emery County." Utah Historical Quarterly 66 (Summer 1998): 196-224.

• History of Sanpete and Emery Counties Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns and Villages, Chronology of Important Events, Records of Indian Wars, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Ogden, Utah: W.H. Lever, 1898. Digital version at Internet Archive.
  

• Mauerman, Lawrence A. Early Exploration and Initial Settlement of Emery County, Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1967.

• McElprang, Stella, compiler.Castle Valley: A History of Emery County. [Utah]:Emery County Company of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1949.

• Powell, Allen Kent, editor. Emery County: Reflections on Its Past and Future. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Historical Society, 1979.

• Taniguchi, Nancy Jacobus. Castle Valley, America: Hard Land, Hard-won Home. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2004.

• Truman, Kathleen. Castle Valley, Emery County, Utah: Our Towns, Our Desert, Our Mountains. [Castle Dale, Utah]: Emery County Archives, 2004.

• Wiggins, Lou S. Jean. History of Emery County. Salt Lake City, Utah: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 2000.

Land and Property

• Land and property records. of Emery County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Emery County Recorder
75 East Main, Room 104
Castle Dale, UT 84513
Phone: 435-381-2414
Fax: 435-381-2614

Maps

• Emery County Map
• Emery County: San Rafael Motorized Route Designation February 2003.
• Emery County: 2002 Draft Monument Proposal.
• Emery County: Voting Precincts.
• Google highway map of Emery County 2009

Migration

Military

Emery County Recorder
75 East Main, Room 104
Castle Dale, UT 84513
Phone: 435-381-2414
Fax: 435-381-2614

The County Recorder has Military Discharge records from 1923-1952.

Naturalization and Citizenship

• Naturalization and citizenship records. of Emery 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 Emery County, Utah.
  • Emery County Progress 1900-1910 and Green River Journal 1955-1956,  are included.
• Existing copies of newspapers. newspapers for Emery County, Utah] are listed in Chronicling America by Library of Congress (LOC).
• The list by dates and towns (from Chronicling America)

 

• Olsen, Bruce L. A History of the Emery County Progress-Leader and Its Predecessors. Provo: Brigham Young University, 1965. To view a digital version of this book click here.
  • The Emery County Progress is a weekly newspaper published every Tuesday. The paper has been published since 1900. In 1963, the name of the newspaper was changed to the Emery County Progress Leader after merging with the Green River Leader. In 1977, the newspaper resumed the name Emery County Progress. The online edition of the paper is free to the general public. The Website's archives currently date back to the year 2001.
  • Back issues of the Emery County Progress and Emery County Progress-Leader are available on microfilm at the Family History Library. The library currently has volumes 1 (1900) thru 64 (1963) of the Emery County Progress available on 19 rolls of microfilm beginning with FHL film 1,486,721. Volumes 65 (1964) thru 78 (1977) of the Emery County Progress-Leader are available on 8 rolls of microfilm beginning with FHL film 2,398,981.

 

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

Obituaries

Obituaries may mention birth, marriage, spouse, parents, and living family members. See Utah Obituaries for state level compendiums and United States Obituaries for tips and insights regarding this record type.

Obituaries for residents may be found in:

• Newspapers of Emery County, Utah
• Local Funeral Homes, Societies, Libraries, or in family records. 
• Obituaries of neighboring counties
• Newspapers of major cities: Deseret News and/or The Salt Lake Tribune both in Salt Lake City
• Obituaries. of Emery 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 Records

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

Public Records

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

Resource Repositories =

Archives

Emery County Archives
75 East Main Street
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-2671
E-mail: Archives@co.Emery.ut.us
Hours: T-Th 12pm-5pm

Green River Archives
1765 East Main Street
Green River, Utah 84525
Phone: 435-564-3427 ext. 2
Fax: 435-564-3526
Hours: T-Th 10am-4pm

Courthouses

County seat: Castle Dale

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Castle Dale Utah Family History Center
• Ferron Utah Family History Center
• Green River Utah Family History Center
• Huntington Utah Family History Center

Libraries

• Archives and libraries informationpublic libraries.

Emery County Library
115 North 100 East
Castle Dale, Utah 84513-9999
Phone: 435-381-2554
Fax: 435-381-2699

Museums

Pioneer History Museum
65 East 100 North
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-5154
Hours: M 12pm-4pm; T-F 10am-4pm; Sat. 12pm-4pm; Closed Sundays

John Wesley Powell River History Museum
1765 East Main Street
Green River, Utah 84525
Phone: 435-564-3427

Museum of the San Rafael
70 North 100 East
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-5252
Email: museum@co.emery.ut.us
Hours: M-F 10am-4pm; Sat. 12pm-4pm; Closed Sundays

Societies

Emery County Historical Society
P.O. Box 96
Castle Dale, Utah 84513
Phone: 435-381-2510
Fax: 435-381-2614

Taxation

Emery County Assessor
75 East Main
Castle Dale, UT 84513
Phone: 435-381-2474
Fax: 435-381-5529

Vital Records

• Vital Records. of Emery County, Utah are listed in the FamilySearch Library. To obtain closer-to-home access to resources, see. public libraries.

Emery County Utah Vital Records
Emery County Clerk
95 E Main Street
Castle Dale, UT 84513
Phone: 435-381-2465

Birth

Below are the best sources to find birth information (dates and places of birth and names of parents) for Emery County, Utah. Also available: How to Find Birth Information in Utah.

Follow the suggestions under the year span that matches when your ancestor was born:

Before 1880

Emery County, Utah was formed on 12 February 1880.

      If your records show the person was born here before the county was formed,
      search parent counties

Before county formation, go to Utah Censuses to locate the family around the time of birth.

1880-1897

No birth records were created for Emery County, Utah by either by county or state civil authorities in this time period.

Follow these suggestions to find birth information for this time period:

• Utah Death Certificates 1904-1961 give birth date and place (recorded at the time of death), names of parents, and name of spouse. Search by names or by exact death date.
• Church records usually give birth date and place and names of parents.
• See also other records that give birth information, such as Death records, Census, Cemeteries, Obituaries
• See also neighboring counties for birth information, due to family members living in that area, religious preferences, convenience, and other reasons.

1898-present

County clerks became responsible for recording births beginning in 1898.^[6] In 1905, the State Department of Health assumed responsibility and required the counties to forward copies of the records to them.

It took a few years after the requirements for people, doctors, midwives, and officials to comply, so some early birth registrations were missed.

Records open to the public

Birth records created more than 100 years ago^[7] are open to the public.

• Online index to births 1898–1905 Series 84038  for Emery County, Utah by the Utah State Archives. (Free) Search by names of parents, as many entries do not give the child's name. Each entry includes date of birth, sex, residence, etc.
  • 1898-1905 Series #84038 at Utah state archives. Not online. There are no names of children in the records.
  • Idea: use censuses and church records to learn those missing children's names.
  • FamilySearch Library copy: film 483527 item 2.
• 1906-1910 online images for Emery County, Utah at the State Archives. Browse the "not yet indexed" area by year and county. Most entries do have names of children.
  
  • Later records open to the public are housed at the Utah State Archives, but not online.
• Online Utah, Births and Christenings, 1892-1941, a FamilySearch Historical Records Collection. (Index only, free). Created from the old IGI, this is a mix of some extracted records and submissions by patrons. Please realize it is not complete.

Restricted records

Access to official birth records within 100 years is restricted to those who meet certain requirements. Order copies:

• Office of Vital Records and Statistics, 288 North 1460 West, Salt Lake City, Utah, Phone: (801) 538-6105. How to order online, by mail, or in person.
• Southeastern Utah District Public Health Department (Emery County) 25 W Main Street, P.O Box 635, Castledale, UT 84513, (435)381-2252.

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Marriage

The County Clerk has marriage records from 1888 to the present.

Emery County Marriage Licenses, 1888 - Current are available online at Emery County Online Services.  The database is fully searchable and contains digital images of the actual marriage license. A marriage license may contain information such as the name of the bride and groom, their ages, residence, date and place of marriage, and names of parent or guardian, witnesses, and marriage officiator.

• 1887-1926 - Western States Marriage Index. Includes Emery County 1887-1926.^[8]

Death

Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 are available online 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

Voting Registers

Towns and Communities

• Cities: Castle Dale | Ferron | Green River | Huntington | Orangeville

• Towns: Clawson | Cleveland | Elmo | Emery | Lawrence | Molen | Moore

• Ghost Towns: Connellsville | Desert Lake | Mohrland | Victor | Wilsonville | Woodside

References

1. ↑ Alice Eichholz, Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources, 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 2004), 676-677. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27rb 2004.
2. ↑ Emery County, Utah Wikipedia.
3. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Emory County, Utah Page 686 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
4. ↑ Funeral Home & Cemetery Directory.(Youngstown, OH: Nomis Publications, Inc., c2009,937
5. ↑ John W. Van Cott, Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide To the Origins of Geographic Names (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990), 128.
6. ↑ Utah State Archives, Birth Records guide, accessed 28 July 2012.)
7. ↑ State Department of Health Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates page. Accessed 7/31/2012
8. ↑ "Emery County, Utah: Family History and Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records and More," Linkpendium, http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/UT/Emery/, accessed 1 February 2012.

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