Malad County, Utah Territory Explained

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.

Notes and 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.