Fort Douglas Post Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 40.760466, -111.823637
County: Salt Lake
Record count: 1,369

Ownership: National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Directions: Located in the far eastern portion of Salt Lake City limits, the cemetery sits along the north-east corner of Chipeta Way and Tabby Ln.

Background: Fort Douglas Post Cemetery was established in 1862 alongside Camp Douglas, a military outpost created by Colonel Patrick E. Connor and the California Volunteers in the foothills east of Salt Lake City, Utah, during the Civil War. The cemetery’s earliest burials included soldiers killed in Connor’s 1863 Bear River campaign, with sandstone markers quarried from nearby Red Butte Canyon. Over time, the camp grew into Fort Douglas (designated in 1878), serving as a major western outpost and later as a training and mobilization base during both World Wars, as well as hosting POW camps. The cemetery expanded from its original small plot to about four acres by the mid-20th century, with additional sections for civilians and reorganized grounds that replaced the early wall with fences and walkways. Though many of the original sandstone markers deteriorated, they were replaced with standard government headstones in the early 2000s. Today, the cemetery remains part of the Fort Douglas historic legacy, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was formally transferred to the National Cemetery Administration on December 20, 2019.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 1,369 records
  • Office of Army Cemeteries, by Interment.net, September 6, 2025, (1,345 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (24 records)

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