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The reservation lies in parts of seven counties; in descending order of land area they are: Uintah, Duchesne, Wasatch, Grand, Carbon, Utah, and Emery counties. The total land area is 6,769.173 square miles (17,532.08 km 2) with control of the lands split between Ute Indian Allottees, the Ute Indian Tribe, and the Ute Distribution Corporation.
Fort Duchesne / d uː ˈ ʃ eɪ n / is a census-designated place (CDP) in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 714 at the 2010 census , an increase from the 2000 figure of 621. Fort Duchesne was originally a fort , established by the United States Army in 1886 and closed in 1912.
Founded in 1861, it is located in Carbon, Duchesne, Grand, Uintah, Utah, and Wasatch Counties in Utah. [1] Raising stock and oil and gas leases are important revenue streams for the reservation. The Tribe is a member of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes. The Tribe holds a 5% stake in the proposed Uinta Basin Rail. [13]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Duchesne County, Utah, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
State Route 208 (SR-208) is a 10.205-mile (16.423 km), north–south state highway on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the Uinta Basin in eastern Duchesne County, Utah, United States, that connects U.S. Route 40 (US-40) with Utah State Route 35 (SR-35).
Fort Cameron; Fort Douglas - A small portion of the fort is still used as the Stephen A. Douglas Armed Forces Reserve Center. Fort Duchesne; Fort Thornburgh - Housed the soldiers preventing the Ute people from leaving the nearby Uintah Valley and Uncompahgre/Ouray Reservations. Gilson Butte - Former rocket testing facility.
English: This is a locator map showing Duchesne County in Utah. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are descendants of the Weeminuche band [2] (Weminuche, Weemeenooch, Wiminuc, Guiguinuches) lived west of the Great Divide along the Dolores River of western Colorado, in the Abajo Mountains, in the Valley of the San Juan River its northern tributaries and in the San Juan Mountains including eastern Utah. [3]