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Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during February 2025: Tooele County (Utah). Probate Court Civil and criminal docket book The following series inventories were updated during February 2025 by our archivists: Office of Vital Records and Statistics Annual reports Tooele County (Utah). Probate Court Minute books The following records were

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during January 2025: District Court (Sixth District : Sanpete County) Registers of Estates Provo (Utah). Cemetery. Cemetery photograph The following series inventories were updated during January 2025 by our archivists: George Henry Dern Records District Court (Sixth District : Sanpete County) Criminal registers of

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during December 2024: Department of Administrative Services State employee newsletter Department of Government Operations. Division of Finance Fiscal Focus annual report The following series inventories were updated during December 2024 by our archivists: District Court (Sixth District : Sanpete County) Judgment Dockets District Court

The following series inventories were updated during November 2024 by our archivists: Department of Natural Resources. Division of Wildlife Resources Prairie dog recovery efforts annual reports First District Court Cache County Civil and criminal case index First District Court Cache County Criminal registers of actions First District Court Cache County Probate index Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death certificates

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during October 2024: Davis School District (Utah). Davis High School. Yearbooks Legislature. Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel State government organization charts The following series inventories were updated during October 2024 by our archivists: District Court (Fifth District : Washington County) Civil registers

October marked the 20th anniversary of the formal opening of the current home of the Utah State Archives and Records Service at 346 S. Rio Grande Street. The anniversary gives us at the Archives the opportunity to reflect on how past visions of a purpose-built facility for the Archives brought us to where we are today. The Archives first became

In September 1996, President Bill Clinton made the controversial decision to draw on powers reserved to him by the 1906 Antiquities Act, and designate 1,880,461 aces of land in southern Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. But did you know that sixty years earlier federal officials were pondering the designation of a similar monument that would have dwarfed the area

The Superconducting Super Collider The history of human activity in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert suggests that it is a place where the biggest of human ideas can take root. During the 1980’s this tendency took the shape of a detailed proposal to turn a section of Great Basin desert into the world’s most cutting edge science and research destination.

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during September 2024: District Court (Third District : Tooele County) Probate registers Library-Gymnasium Commission The Library-Gymnasium Movement pamphlet The following series inventories were updated this month by our archivists: District Court (First District : Rich County) Declaration of Intention record books District Court (First

The MX Missile The MX Missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile utilized by the United States between 1985 and 2005. Development began on the MX missile (which stood for “Missile Experimental”) in 1971 and in 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that 200 MX missiles would be deployed throughout western Utah and eastern Nevada. This proposed basing system was immediately