Lapoint, Utah

Lapoint is an unincorporated community in western Uintah County, Utah, United States.

[1] The community lies along State Route 121, just inside the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, and west of the city of Vernal (the county seat of Uintah County).

[3] Deep Creek, a tributary of the Uinta River flow southwest through Lapoint.

[9] Lapoint was settled on top of a significant Fremont archaeological site known as "Caldwell Village", after the property on which it was found, excavated in 1966 by John Richard Ambler.

The surface of the site was almost entirely destroyed by agricultural plowing and today there are no extant remains visible.

Map of Utah highlighting Uintah County