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Iron County, Utah

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

18historic places

—earliest paper

1850formed

57,289pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 18 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Cedar City, Parowan, Modena.

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 Iron titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 18 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

18 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Caretaker's Cabin	Cedar City	Building	1983
Cedar City Historic District	Cedar City	District	2004
Cedar City Railroad Depot	Cedar City	Building	1984
Ensign-Smith House	Paragonah	Building	1983
Evans Mound (42IN40)	Summit	Site	1985
Gold Spring	Modena	District	1977
Long Flat Site	Parowan	Site	1979
Lyman, William and Julia, House	Parowan	Building	2000
Meeks-Green Farmstead	Parowan	Building	1994
Modena Elementary School	Modena	Building	1985
Old Irontown	Cedar City	Site	1971
Old Main and Science Buildings	Cedar City	Building	1984
Page, Daniel R. and Sophia G., House	Page Ranch	Building	1985
Parowan Gap Petroglyphs	Parowan	District	1975
Parowan Meetinghouse	Parowan	Building	1976
Smith, Jesse N., House	Parowan	Building	1975
US Post Office-Cedar City Main	Cedar City	Building	1989
Visitor Center	Cedar City	Building	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Iron was formed in 1850 (1850-01-31) from unknown / original county.

LITTLE SALT LAKE (now IRON) created by the state of Deseret to cover the Little Salt Lake Valley.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Iron County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
360	1,010	4,013	3,546	5,787	8,331	9,642	10,795	17,349	33,779	57,289

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.
Cedar Breaks National Monument	Park unit	52.9 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cedar City Cemetery	37.69025	-113.06299
Enoch Cemetery	37.76914	-113.02799
Hamilton Family Cemetery	37.6317	-113.12679
John McGarry Memorial Park Cemetery	37.69262	-113.71796
Kanarraville Cemetery	37.53886	-113.19661
Modena Cemetery	37.82394	-113.93663
Newcastle Cemetery	37.66219	-113.56717
Paragonah Cemetery	37.88691	-112.76188
Parowan City Cemetery	37.83747	-112.81799
Peterson Family Cemetery	37.71453	-113.80764
State Line Cemetery	38.00135	-114.00192
Summit City Cemetery	37.80553	-112.93966

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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