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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Death Canyon. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Death Canyon to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Death Canyon, please Contact Us.

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Death Canyon (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Death Canyon. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Death Canyon ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Death Canyon: Death Cyn. (or less commonly used: Death Canyn. or Death Cnyn.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Death Canyon is historic, it would have been located within present day Tooele County.

To see how the shape of Utah's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Tooele County: Elko (NV), White Pine (NV), Box Elder, Davis, Juab, Salt Lake, Utah & Weber.

Below are the counties that are near Death Canyon. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Death Canyon:

  • Tooele County     (The home county of Death Canyon)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Death Canyon, with the one closest to Death Canyon listed first.
    • Benmore ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Vernon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Dugway
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Lofgreen ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lofgreen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lofgreen
      • Lofgreen is located in Tooele County
      • Lofgreen has also been known as:
      • Lofgreen Siding
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Lofgreen
      • From Death Canyon to Lofgreen
    • Faust ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Faust. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faust
      • Faust is located in Tooele County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Faust
      • From Death Canyon to Faust
    • Orr's Ranch
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Orr's Ranch. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orr's Ranch
      • Orr's Ranch is located in Tooele County
      • Orr's Ranch has also been known as:
      • Orr Ranch
      • Orr's
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Orr's Ranch
      • From Death Canyon to Orr's Ranch
    • Terra
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Scranton ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Scranton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scranton
      • Scranton is located in Tooele County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Scranton
      • From Death Canyon to Scranton
    • Ajax ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Juab County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Death Canyon, with the one closest to Death Canyon listed first.
    • Dugway Station ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Boulter
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boulter. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulter
      • Boulter is located in Juab County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Boulter
      • From Death Canyon to Boulter
    • Joy ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Joy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
      • Joy is located in Juab County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Joy
      • From Death Canyon to Joy
    • Black Rock Station ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Jericho ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Ironton ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ironton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironton
      • Ironton is located in Juab County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Ironton
      • From Death Canyon to Ironton
    • Tintic ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Tintic. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tintic
      • Tintic is located in Juab County
      • Tintic has also been known as:
      • Ely Mills
      • McIntyre
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Tintic
      • From Death Canyon to Tintic
    • Jericho Junction ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Millard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Death Canyon, with the one closest to Death Canyon listed first.
    • Lucerne ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lucerne. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Lucerne is located in Millard County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Lucerne
      • From Death Canyon to Lucerne
    • Sugarville ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Sunflower ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sunflower. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunflower
      • Sunflower is located in Millard County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Sunflower
      • From Death Canyon to Sunflower

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Death Canyon, see our County-by-County Page for Death Canyon.

Cemeteries Near Death Canyon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Death Canyon.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Death Canyon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Death Canyon, with the one closest to Death Canyon listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

While we didn't find Death Canyon in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Death Canyon.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Death Canyon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Death Canyon.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Death Canyon:

The official website for Tooele County: www.co.tooele.ut.us/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Death Canyon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.




 

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