Editing Utah County, Utah (section)

==History==
The legislature of the [[State of Deseret]] created a county on January 31, 1850,<ref>The Utah County website "History" cites January 28, 1850, as the date of establishing Utah County [http://www.utahcounty.gov/CountyInfo/CountyHistory.html]</ref> to govern the civic affairs of [[Utah Valley]], which by the 1850s was bustling with newly arrived settlers. The county name is derived from the valley name, which is derived from the Spanish name (''Yuta'') for the [[Ute people|Ute]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]]. The State of Deseret dissolved soon after (April 5, 1851), but the counties it had set in place continued. There is little record of any official activity conducted by the fledgling county until April 18, 1852, when a full slate of county officials was published, and recordkeeping began. The first courthouse was built in central Provo in 1866–67. It was soon outgrown and was replaced by a second courthouse (1872–73). By the 1920s, this building was also cramped, and the decision was made to erect a combined city-county building, which was completed in 1926.<ref>[http://www.utahcounty.gov/CountyInfo/HistoricCountyCourthouse.html "Historic Utah County Courthouse"  Utah County website (accessed 26 March 2019)]</ref>

The county's boundaries were adjusted in 1852, 1854, 1856, 1862, 1880, and 1884. It has retained its present boundary since 1884.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/UT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Utah: Individual County Chronologies|publisher=[[Newberry Library]]|date=2008|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306153326/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/UT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>