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Welcome to Mountain Home ...

Mountain Home is located in Duchesne County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mountain Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1912.

A typical abbreviation for Mountain Home: Mtn. Home

Mountain Home is 7,000 feet [2,134 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Mountain Home is about 1¼ mile [or ~2¼ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Mountain Home lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Mountain Home: 435

Communities Also Named Mountain Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Mountain Home - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (2), California (2), Idaho (2), North Carolina (2), Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mountain Home.

Websites for Mountain Home ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.duchesne.net/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Mountain Home, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Mountain Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mountain Home.

  • Duchesne
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchesne
    • Duchesne is located in Duchesne County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,725 people
    • Former names for Duchesne:
    • Dora
    • Theodore
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Duchesne <3>
  • Altamont
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Tabiona
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Altonah
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altonah
    • Altonah is located in Duchesne County
    • Former name for Altonah:
    • Queen City
  • Talmage
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Talmage. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmage
    • Talmage is located in Duchesne County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Talmage <3>
  • Mount Emmons
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mount Emmons. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Emmons
    • Mount Emmons is located in Duchesne County
  • Bluebell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Utahn ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Utahn. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utahn
    • Utahn is located in Duchesne County
  • Upalco
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upalco
    • Upalco is located in Duchesne County
  • Arcadia
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
    • Arcadia is located in Duchesne County
    • Former name for Arcadia:
    • Red Cap

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mountain Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mountain Home.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mountain Home. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mountain Home.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain Home. See our Newspapers Page for Mountain Home.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mountain Home ...

Looking for more information about Mountain Home? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for Mountain Home, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Mountain Home.

Adding Mountain Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mountain Home in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mountain Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

X2X - From that list, the Mountain Home post office opened in 1912.

We also found Mountain Home on a map titled Shell Oil Road Map for Utah (1950).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mountain Home.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mountain Home. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Duchesne County: www.duchesnegov.net/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Utah's counties, including Duchesne, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mountain Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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