Nearest Communities to Lapoint,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lapoint, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lapoint:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Lapoint is located in Uintah County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Uintah County: Garfield (CO), Moffat (CO), Rio Blanco (CO), Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand & Summit.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lapoint. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Uintah County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Lapoint (which is Uintah County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Lapoint
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Uintah County (where Lapoint resides)
- County Website: https://www.uintah.gov/
- County Seat for Uintah: Vernal
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Lapoint ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lapoint.
- Tridell
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Leeton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Leeton is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeton
- Gusher
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Bennett
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bennett is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
- Whiterocks
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Duchesne
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hayden
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Hayden is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
- Randlett
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Ballard
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Ballard is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,105 people
- Dry Fork
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Dry Fork is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Fork
- Maeser
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Maeser is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maeser
- Independence ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Independence is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Vernal
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Vernal is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,468 people
- Former names for Vernal:
- Ashley
- Bench
- The Bench
- Hatch
- Jericho
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vernal <3>
- Naples
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Leota
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Leota is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leota
- Ouray
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Ouray is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ouray
- Bullionville ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Bullionville is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullionville
- Escalante Crossing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Escalante Crossing is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante Crossing
- Jensen
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Fort Robidoux ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Fort Robidoux is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robidoux
- Fort Robidoux has also been known as:
- Antoine Robidoux's Fort
- Fort Kit Carson
- William Reed's Post
- Dyer ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Dyer is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer
- Red Wash
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Red Wash is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Wash
- Squaw Crossing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Squaw Crossing is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Crossing
- Daggett County
- County Website: https://www.daggettcounty.gov/
- County Seat for Daggett: Manila
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Lapoint ...
- Deer Lodge Summer Home Area
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Duchesne County
- County Website: https://duchesne.utah.gov/
- County Seat for Duchesne: Duchesne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Lapoint ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lapoint.
- Roosevelt
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Neola
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Cedarview ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Cedarview is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarview
- Monarch
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Monarch is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monarch
- Ioka
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Ioka is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ioka
- Myton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bluebell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Upalco
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Upalco is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upalco
- Mount Emmons
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Mount Emmons is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Emmons
- Arcadia
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Arcadia is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
- Former name for Arcadia:
- Red Cap
- Altamont
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Altonah
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Altonah is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altonah
- Former name for Altonah:
- Queen City
- Bridgeland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bridgeland is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeland
- Boneta
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Boneta is located in Duchesne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneta
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lapoint) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.
Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
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