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Grand County, Utah

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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22historic places

—earliest paper

1890formed

9,669pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 22 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Moab, Green River, Crescent Junction.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Utah is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Grand titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

16 of 22 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

22 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Apache Motel	Moab	Building	2008
Ballard-Sego Coal Mine Historic District	Green River	District	2017
Courthouse Wash Pictographs	Moab	Site	1976
Dalton Wells CCC Camp-Moab Relocation Center	Moab	Site	1994
Dewey Bridge	Moab	Structure	1984
Elk Mountain Mission Fort Site	Moab	Site	1978
Johnson Ranch House	Crescent Junction	Building	2018
Julien Incription Panel	Moab	Site	1988
Julien, Denis, Inscription	Moab	Site	1991
Moab Cabin	Moab	Building	1980
Moab LDS Church	Moab	Building	1980
Old Spanish Trail	Moab	Structure	1988
Pinhook Battleground	Moab	Site	1982
Ringhoffer Inscription	Moab	Site	1988
Robidoux Inscription	Cisco	Site	1982
Rock House-Custodian's Residence	Moab	Building	1988
Shafer, John Henry, House	Moab	Building	2001
Star Hall	Moab	Building	1993
Taylor, Arthur, House	Moab	Building	1980
Thompson Wash Rock Art District	Thompson	District	1980
Warner, Orlando W., House	Moab	Building	1977
Wolfe Ranch Historical District	Moab	District	1975

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Grand was formed in 1890 (1890-03-13) from Emery.

GRAND created by Utah Territory from EMERY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Grand County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
541	1,149	1,808	2,070	1,903	6,345	8,241	8,485	9,669

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Arches National Park	Park unit	28.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

9 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Andy Swenson Gravesite	38.60645	-109.2236
Castle Valley Cemetery	38.63464	-109.40383
Castleton Cemetery	38.60715	-109.32034
Elgin Cemetery	39.01608	-110.13457
Grand Valley Cemetery	38.56556	-109.53301
Red Cliffs Cemetery	38.67914	-109.44735
Sego Cemetery	39.02343	-109.71081
Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery	38.53387	-109.49996
Thompson Springs Cemetery	38.97017	-109.72245

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Brendel	38.94692	-109.81485

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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