Do you know of Summit Point ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Summit Point. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Summit Point.

Our sources for Summit Point (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Summit Point other than they indicate that Summit Point would be found somewhere in San Juan County, Utah.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1921 and closed  in 1952.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Summit Point ...

We found one communities that share the name Summit Point.

Within Utah, the name Summit Point is unique.

Beyond Utah, there is another community also named Summit Point in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • West Virginia
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Summit Point [Jefferson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Summit Point ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Summit Point:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Utah Place Names
Written by: Van Cott, John W.
Published by the University of Utah Press, 1990
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for Utah (1950)
Published by Shell Oil Company

The FIPS database contains an entry for Summit Point.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 49/74150   (Place Name: Summit Point)

County: San Juan     (FIPS State/County: 49/037)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Summit Point) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  San Juan County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in San Juan County.