Beaver County, Utah Genealogy

United States Utah  Beaver County

County Courthouse
http://www.beaver.utah.gov/ Beaver County, Utah Website

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

"Beaver County doesn't have a main switchboard, and each department has its own mailing address. To get individual phone numbers, fax numbers, and mailing addresses, go to that department's page or check the Officials page."

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 | Lincoln | Shawnee | Sulphurdale | Thermo

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

Cemeteries

 * Beaver County Cemeteries at the Utah State Historical Site
 * Beaver County Cemeteries Locations

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

Church Records
Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Beaver 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 at https://www.familysearch.org/. 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.

Mining Industry
The mining industry in Beaver county created several boom towns, most of which are now ghost towns.
 * List of Mines in Beaver County

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
Western States Marriage Index 

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

Websites

 * The Beaver County UTGenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project (Backup site)
 * Family History Library Catalog for Beaver County