AGENCY: United States. Department of the Interior

SERIES: 8566
TITLE: Census of the United States (1880). Population. Utah
DATES: s 1880.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by county name.

DESCRIPTION: These are the population schedules for Utah from the tenth United States census used to determine congressional representation and gather statistical information on the populace. Under the census act of 1880, census data was collected by specially appointed agents of the Census Office, then a temporary office within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Columns in the schedule record the dwelling house numbered in order of visitation; name of each person whose place of abode on June 1, 1880 was in this family; personal description, specifically color [race], sex, and age; civil condition [marital status]; occupation; health,specifically blind, deaf and dumb, idiotic, insane, maimed/crippled/bedridden, or otherwise; education, specifically attended school, cannot read, cannot write; and nativity, specifically place [state or country] of birth for self, father, and mother. Marginal notations, not specifically asked for in the census include M for Mormon [member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], D for disfellowshipped, G for gentile [non-Mormon], J for Josephite [member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints], and AM for anti-Mormon.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the information these schedule provide on the residents of Utah and its use to both historians and genealogists.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public. Census information is made public after 72 years.

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