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Rich County, Utah

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1864formed

2,510pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1986. Most listings are in or near Randolph, Woodruff.

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 Rich titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Randolph Tabernacle	Randolph	Building	1986
Woodruff Stake House	Woodruff	Building	2000

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Rich was formed in 1864 (1864-01-16) from Cache.

RICHLAND (now RICH) created by Utah Territory from CACHE; RICHLAND included territory in present Utah and Wyoming.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,955	1,263	1,946	1,890	2,028	1,673	1,685	2,100	1,961	2,510

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.
Fossil Butte National Monument	Park unit	46.7 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Eastman Family Cemetery	41.5166	-111.20796
Garden City Cemetery	41.94583	-111.40455
Laketown Cemetery	41.81493	-111.32186
Meadowville Cemetery	41.83446	-111.39297
Randolph City Cemetery	41.66521	-111.19435
Round Valley Cemetery	41.78541	-111.3661
Woodruff Cemetery	41.53192	-111.17196

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Pickelville	41.91243	-111.38826

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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