Territorial evolution of Utah: Difference between revisions

[[File:United States 1789-03-1789-08.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the [[Constitutionofthe United States]] was ratified on {{nobreak|March 4, 1789.}}]]

[[File:United States 1821-07-1821-08.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the [[Treaty of Córdoba]] was signed on {{nobreak|August 24, 1821.}}]]

[[File:United States 1848-02-1848-05.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] was signed on {{nobreak|February 2, 1848.}}]]

[[File:United States Central change 1849-03-12.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the proposed [[StateofDeseret]] on {{nobreak|July 2, 1849.}}]]

[[File:United States 1850-1853-03.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the [[TerritoryofNew Mexico]] and the [[Territory of Utah]] on {{nobreak|September 9, 1850.}}]]

[[File:United States Central change 1859-11-07.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the proposed [[Territory of Jefferson]] on {{nobreak|October 24, 1859.}}]]

[[File:United States 1861-02-28-1861-03.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the [[Territory of Colorado]] on {{nobreak|February 28, 1861.}}]]

[[File:United States 1861-03-1861-08.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the [[Territory of Nevada]] on {{nobreak|March 2 1861.}}]]

[[File:United States 1862-1863-02.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the annexation of a western portion of the [[Territory of Utah]] on {{nobreak|July 14 1862.}}]]

[[File:United States 1866-1867-01.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the annexation of another western portion of the [[Territory of Utah]] on {{nobreak|May 5 1866.}}]]

[[File:United States 1868-1876.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the [[Territory of Wyoming]] on {{nobreak|July 25, 1868.}}]]

[[File:United States 1896-01-1896-05.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of [[Utah]] to the [[United States|Union]] on {{nobreak|May 4 1896.}}]]

[[File:United States 1959-08-present.png|thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since [[Hawaii|Hawai{{okina}}i]] was admitted to the [[United States|Union]] on {{nobreak|August 21, 1959.}}]]

The following timeline traces the '''territorial evolution of the [[United States|U.S.]] [[State of Utah]]'''.

==Timeline==

*Historical territorial claims of [[Spain]] in the present [[State of Utah]]:

**[[Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain|Nueva Vizcaya]], 1562–1821

**[[Santa Fé de Nuevo Méjico]], 1598–1821

**[[Gran Cuenca]], 1776–1821

*Historical territorial claims of [[Mexico]] in the present [[State of Utah]]:

**[[Santa Fé de Nuevo México]], 1821–1848

**[[Gran Cuenca]], 1821–1848

*Historical [[political divisions of the United States]] in the present [[State of Utah]]:

**[[Territories of the United States|Unorganized territory]] created by the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]], 1848–1850

***[[Compromise of 1850]]

**[[State of Deseret]] (extralegal), 1849–1850

**[[Territory of Utah]], 1850–1896

***Utah Organic Act, September 9, 1850<ref name=Utah_Organic_Act>{{cite web|date=September 9, 1850|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=009/llsl009.db&recNum=480|title = An Act to provide a Territorial Government for Utah|format=[[cgi-bin]]|author=[[Thirty-first United States Congress]]|accessdate=June 5, 2009}}</ref>

***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 [[Territory of Nebraska]], March 2, 1861

***Western 53 miles of the Utah Territory is transferred to the [[Territory of Nevada]], July 14, 1862

***Another 53 miles of the Utah Territory is transferred to the [[State of Nevada]], May 5, 1866

***North-eastern corner of the Utah Territory is incorporated into the new [[Territory of Wyoming]], July 25, 1868

***Utah Enabling Act, July 16, 1894

**[[Territory of Jefferson]] (extralegal), 1859–1861

**[[State of Utah]] since January 4, 1896<ref name=Utah_Statehood_Proclamation>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=70787|title=By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation Admitting the State of Utah to the Union|author=[[Grover Cleveland]]|date=January 4, 1896|accessdate=June 4, 2009}}</ref>

*[[Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act]]

:{{flagicon|Arizona}} [[Territorial evolution of Arizona]]

:{{flagicon|Colorado}} [[List of territorial claims and designations in Colorado]]

:{{flagicon|Idaho}} [[Territorial evolution of Idaho]]

:{{flagicon|Nevada}} [[Territorial evolution of Nevada]]

:{{flagicon|New Mexico}} [[Territorial evolution of New Mexico]]

:{{flagicon|Wyoming}} [[Territorial evolution of Wyoming]]

{{Territorial evolution of the world}}

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[[Category:Pre-statehood history of Utah]]

[[Category:Histories of territories of the United States|Utah]]

[[Category:Outlines of territorial evolution of U.S. states|Utah]]

[[Category:Geography of Utah]]