Beaver County, Utah Genealogy

United States Utah  Beaver County

County Courthouse
http://www.beaver.state.ut.us/

County Administration Building Post Office Box 392 105 East Center Beaver UT 84713

Parent Counties
10 January 1856: Beaver County was created from Iron and Millard Counties.

Record Loss
County Recorder's Office Deeds, file mining claims, get assistance in finding ownership of a particular property, and obtain copies of county plat maps. This office has county plat records dating back to 1878, prior records having been destroyed in a fire.

Cities
Beaver | Milford

Town
Minersville

Unincorporated communities
Adamsville | Greenville

Ghost towns
Frisco | Newhouse

Neighboring Counties
Garfield | Iron | Millard | Piute | Sevier | Lincoln County, Nevada

Cemeteries (Rural)
Squires Family Cemetery


 * Utah Gravestone Photo Project
 * Findagrave.com

Census

 * 1856
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church History and Records (Rural)

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


 * 1) Beaver Dam
 * 2) Reed

Newspapers

 * One major resource for newspapers throughout Utah is the University of Utah's Utah Digital Newspapers project "with more than 600,000 pages of digitized Utah historical newspapers." Two newspapers from Beaver County are included in this digital project, the Southern Utonian and Beaver City Press. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.

Vital Records
4,658 marriages from 14 Mar 1858 to 5 Aug 2006 are located on the Western States Marriage Index.

Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the Family Search Record Search Pilot. 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.

Websites

 * The Beaver County UTGenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * [http://www.usgwarchives.org/ut/beaver/beaver.htm The USGenWeb Archives Project (Backup site)
 * FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Beaver County