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The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, [2] until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, [3] the 45th state.
Territory of Utah, 1850–1896 Utah Organic Act, September 9, 1850 [1] Eastern portion of the Utah Territory is incorporated into the new Territory of Colorado, February 28, 1861; Western portion of the Utah Territory is incorporated into the new Territory of Nevada, March 2, 1861; North-eastern portion of the Utah Territory is transferred to ...
The petition was rejected by Congress and Utah did not become a state until 1896, following the Utah Constitutional Convention of 1895. The boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret—as proposed in 1849—are shown with a dotted line. The Utah Territory as organized in 1850, is shown in blue with black outline.
The Utah Territory (September 9, 1850 - January 4, 1896) during the American Civil War was far from the main operational theaters of war, but still played a role in the disposition of the United States Army, drawing manpower away from the volunteer forces and providing its share of administrative headaches for the Lincoln Administration.
In 1870, upon completion of U.S. government surveys, Utah's ersatz Rio Virgen settlements acknowledged that they were in Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory (1865–1871; whose area comprised those parts of Arizona Territory north of "Roaring Rapids" on the Colorado River and west of 113° 20” west longitude), with Pah-Ute County's seat at ...
The Utah Territory was much smaller than the proposed state of Deseret, but it still contained all of the present states of Nevada and Utah as well as pieces of modern Wyoming and Colorado. [35] It was created with the Compromise of 1850 , and Fillmore , named after President Millard Fillmore , was designated the capital.
The Utah War (1857–1858), also known as the Utah Expedition, [4] the Utah Campaign, [5] Buchanan's Blunder, [6] the Mormon War, [7] or the Mormon Rebellion, [8] was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government. The confrontation lasted from May 1857 to July 1858.
Utah Territory's at-large congressional district is an obsolete congressional district that encompassed the area of the Utah Territory.After Utah's admission to the Union as the 45th state by act of Congress on January 4, 1896, this district was dissolved and replaced by Utah's at-large congressional district.