Malad County, Utah Territory

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Malad County, Utah Territory was created 12 January 1856 [1] [2] [3] from part of Weber County. The Utah legislature discontinued Malad County on January 17, 1862, and its land was given to Box Elder County. Malad County is now extinct. [4]

For records of Malad County, Utah Territory see:

  • Utah State Archives may have a few records from the Utah Territory Malad County courts and deeds.
  • Utah 1856 Territorial Census [5]
Some records for old Malad County, Utah Territory may have been transferred to, or may have been re-recorded in Box Elder County, Utah.

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References

  1. Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Acts, resolutions and memorials passed at the annual sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah convened . . . 1855 (Great Salt Lake City, 1855), 7. Google books online edition.
  2. Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 687.
  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. Deon C. Greer, Atlas of Utah (Ogden, Utah: Desert State College, 1981), 162 and 164.
  5. Dilts, Bryan Lee. 1856 Utah census index : an every-name index (Salt Lake City, Utah : Index Publishing, 1983), iii-xvii.

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