Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
115historic places
—earliest paper
1854formed
42,357pop. 2020
23cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 115 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Park City, Coalville, Echo.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.
County formation
Newberry AHCB
Summit was formed in 1854 (1854-01-13) from GREEN RIVER (Utah Territory, extinct), Great Salt Lake.
SUMMIT created by Utah Territory from GREEN RIVER (Utah Territory, extinct) and GREAT SALT LAKE (now SALT LAKE); SUMMIT included territory in present Utah and Wyoming.
Summit County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
198
4,921
9,439
7,862
8,714
6,745
5,673
10,198
29,736
42,357
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
23 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 23 of 23 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Coalville Cemetery
40.92411
-111.39185
Cooper - Hughes - Vickory Cemetery
40.75712
-111.38988
Echo Historical Cemetery
40.97889
-111.44125
Emory Cemetery
41.04833
-111.30611
Glenwood Cemetery
40.65439
-111.51185
Henefer Cemetery
41.00827
-111.49602
Hoytsville Cemetery
40.87522
-111.37602
Kamas Bible Church Cemetery
40.64804
-111.28236
Kamas Cemetery
40.61828
-111.28156
Lower Francis Cemetery
40.60352
-111.25294
Marion Cemetery
40.68439
-111.26767
North Bench Cemetery
40.7244
-111.29945
Oakley Cemetery
40.72341
-111.29985
Park City Cemetery
40.6622
-111.5036
Peoa Cemetery
40.73105
-111.34574
Rockport Cemetery
40.75791
-111.39117
Seymour / Davis Cemetery
40.75702
-111.38978
Snyderville Pioneer Cemetery
40.69799
-111.54576
Stevens Cemetery
40.72191
-111.29998
Upper Francis Cemetery
40.6042
-111.25229
Upton Cemetery
40.96355
-111.23157
Wanship Cemetery
40.8029
-111.40955
Woodland Cemetery
40.57911
-111.21572
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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