Park Valley, Box Elder County, Utah Genealogy

United States Utah  Box Elder  Park Valley

History
Park Valley is a ghost town,
 * Central Pacific Railroad
 * Southern Pacific Railroad

Location

 * GPS Location: 41°30′13″N 113°31′01″W

Time Line

 * 1869 April 1 Established
 * 1900 Main railroad shops moved to Montello and Carlin Nevada
 * 1900 Fire burned through city destroying many buildings
 * 1904 Railroad constructed a new route by way of the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake bypassing Terrace
 * 1944 Rails were taken up and donated to the WWII war effort.

Neighboring Communities
Promontory | Park Valley | Snowville |Rosette | Lucin | Etna | Grouse Creek

Cemeteries
Check cemeteries in neighboring communities.
 * Terrace Cemetery: One-half mile northeast of the Terrace site, the cemetery can be found.
 * Terrace Cemetery Findagrave.com Transcriptions
 * Terrace Cemetery
 * Box Elder County Cemeteries
 * Box Elder Utah Gravestone Photo Project
 * Findagrave.com

Historical Newspapers

 * Box Elder News

Vital Records

 * The Chinese were generally excluded from the census, and some tallies counted registered voters only.

Marriages

 * Marriage information may be located at the Western States Marriage Database searchable by bride or groom.

Death

 * Utah Department of Archives 1903 to 50 years ago Choices of search types - name, date of death (year, month, day, or any combination) and county. Images of actual death certificates.
 * Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the Family Search Historical Records. 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.  For information on death prior to 1904 you can search the Utah State Burial Index.

Suggested Reading

 * The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns.
 * Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures
 * ''Connecting the West : historic railroad stops and stage stations of Elko County, Nevada

Websites

 * China Emigration and Immigration
 * Ghost Town of Terrace
 * Central Pacific Transcontinental RR Grade
 * First Transcontinental Railroad
 * Utah Ghost Towns