Desert County, Utah Territory

Legacy county in Utah.

Utah Territory 1856 map

Desert County is a former county in the U.S. state of Utah. It was established by the Territory of Utah on March 3, 1852 and was dissolved on January 17, 1862. Its modern day location is taken up by Box Elder County, Tooele County, and Nevada.[1][2][3][4][5]

The Utah Territory Legislative Assembly determined its boundary as bounded North by Weber County, east by the western shore of Salt Lake, south by the parallel of latitude, forming the southern boundary of Davis county, and west by California.[1]

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1. ^ a b Utah Territory Legislative Assembly, Acts, resolutions, and memorials, passed by the first annual, and special sessions, of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Utah, begun and held at Great Salt Lake City, on the 22nd day of September, A.D., 1851 (1852) (G.S.L. City, U.T.: Legislative Assembly, 1852), 162. Internet Archive edition.
2. ^ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 686.
3. ^ "Chart of County Formation in Utah" in Division of Archives and Records Service at http://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/county-formation.htm (accessed 11 August 2011).
4. ^ John Koontz, Political History of Nevada, 5th ed. (Carson City, Nev.: SPO, 1965), 34-98.
5. ^ Deon C. Greer, Atlas of Utah (Ogden, Utah: Desert State College, 1981), 162-64. Note: In several places Desert County is incorrectly spelled Deseret County in the text of Atlas of Utah.