A GAZETTEER OF UTAH. 
By Henry Gannett. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE. 
POLITICAL HISTORY AND AREA. 
The Territory of Utah was organized September 9, 1850, its area 
being a part of that acquired from Mexico by the United States in 
1848. As originally organized it extended from the summit of the 
Rocky Mountains in central Colorado westward to the east boundary 
of California, including all the territory between the parallels of 37° 
and 12° north latitude. These limits are thus defined in the act creat- 
ing the Territory: 
All that part of the territory of the United States included within the following 
limits, to wit: Bounded on the west by the State of California, on the north by the 
Territory of Oregon, and on the east by the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and on 
the south by the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, be, and the same is hereby, 
created into a temporary government, by the name of the Territory of Utah. 
The organization of Colorado Territory, in 1801, reduced it on the 
east to its present eastern boundary, and the formation of the Terri- 
tory of Nevada, in the same year, reduced it on the west to the merid- 
ian of 39° west of Washington. The enabling act of the State of 
Nevada, passed in 1861, moved the west boundary of Utah a degree 
farther east, placing it upon the meridian of 38°, and upon the admis- 
sion of Nevada as a State, in 1866, Utah was still further diminished 
and Nevada increased, the eastern boundary of the latter being placed 
upon the meridian of 37° west of Washington. Meantime, in 1863, the 
northeast corner of the State was cut oil' and added to the Territory 
of Idaho, and in 1866 a square degree in the northeast was added to 
the Territory of Wyoming, thus reducing Utah to its present dimen- 
sions. On January 1, 1896, it was admitted as a State, its boundaries 
being the same as those of the Territory of Utah, as follows: 
Commencing at the intersection of the forty-lirst parallel of north latitude with 
the thirty-second meridian west of Washington; thence south on this meridian t<> the 
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