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Kane County, Utah

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15historic places

—earliest paper

1864formed

7,667pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Kanab, Mt. Carmel, Glen Canyon.

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 Kane titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bowman-Chamberlain House	Kanab	Building	1975
Cottonwood Canyon Cliff Dwelling	Kanab	Site	1980
Davis Gulch Pictograph Panel	Glen Canyon	Site	1975
Dixon, Maynard, and Edith Hamlin House and Studio	Mt. Carmel	Building	2002
Hole-In-The-Rock	Escalante	Site	1975
Johnson, William Derby, Jr., House	Kanab	Building	2001
Kanab (Union Pacific) Lodge	Kanab	Building	2003
Kanab Hotel and Cafe	Kanab	Building	2003
Kanab Library	Kanab	Building	1995
Kanab Post Office	Kanab	Building	2011
Mt. Carmel School and Church	Mt. Carmel	Building	1987
Parry Lodge	Kanab	Building	2003
Paso por Aqui-Anno 1776 Inscription	Big Water	Site	2018
Rider-Pugh House	Kanab	Building	2001
Stewart-Woolley House	Kanab	Building	2001

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kane was formed in 1864 (1864-01-16) from Washington.

KANE created by Utah Territory from WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kane County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,513	3,085	1,811	2,054	2,561	2,299	2,667	4,024	6,046	7,667

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.
Bryce Canyon National Park	Park unit	49.4 km
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	Park unit	49.5 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adairville Cemetery	37.11836	-111.91755
Alton Cemetery	37.43192	-112.48964
Angels Rest at Best Friends	37.14842	-112.54071
Elijah Averett Gravesite	37.48913	-112.08187
Glendale City Cemetery	37.31859	-112.59159
Harris Cemetery	37.31537	-112.60072
Johnson Cemetery	37.08644	-112.37515
Kanab City Cemetery	37.04415	-112.51853
Kanab Pioneer Park Cemetery	37.05497	-112.52513
Mount Carmel Cemetery	37.24748	-112.66853
Orderville Cemetery	37.2722	-112.63742
Pahreah Cemetery	37.24309	-111.95749
Roundy / Johnson Cemetery	37.45692	-112.44956
Roundy Cemetery	37.45507	-112.45543

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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