'"[6] Roosevelt is home to a regional campus location of Utah State University.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Roosevelt has a total area of 5.6 square miles (14.4 km2), all land.

As of 2015 the largest self-reported ancestry groups in Roosevelt, Utah are:[11] In 1905, by an act of Congress, the unallotted land of the Ute Indian Reservation was opened to homesteading.

The town of Roosevelt was founded in early 1906 when Ed Harmston turned his homestead claim into a townsite and laid out plots.

His wife named the prospective town in honor of the president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

Within a short time a store, a post office, and the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company were in business in the new town.

Roosevelt is situated on U.S. Route 40 in the northeast corner of the state, south of the Uinta Mountains, at an elevation of 5,250 feet (1,600 m).

Roosevelt is located in an area of vast oil reserves spanning the northeast corner of Utah and extending into western Colorado.

The proposed Uinta Basin Rail project would build a new railroad line into Roosevelt for transporting oil drilled in the area.

Various types of farming, including beef cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, honey and hay, are prevalent in the outlying areas around town.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the dominant religious denomination in Roosevelt, with three stake centers in town; the community also includes Roman Catholic, Christian Assembly of God, Baptist, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other smaller denomination congregations.

Located near the Uintah/Ouray Indian Reservation headquarters of Fort Duchesne, Roosevelt is a multicultural and polyethnic community, with Caucasians and Native Americans being the most numerous.