Daggett County Utah

Daggett County is a county located in the Northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,059, making it the least populous county in Utah. Its county seat and only municipality is Manila. The county was named for Ellsworth Daggett, the first surveyor-general of Utah. There is one other small community, Dutch John, which became an incorporated town in January 2016. It is in the corner of the Colorado-Wyoming state line. With a total 1,866.39 sq.km of land and water area, Daggett County, Utah is the 1363rd largest county equivalent area in the United States. Home to 1,117 people, Daggett County has a total 1146 households earning 46917 on average per year. It is a land of spectacular redrock cliffs, snowcapped mountains, tall pines, and whitewater rapids. Daggett County may be small in population, but it has landscape on a grand scale. This rugged countryside, a boon to modern recreationists, has generally made life difficult for the area’s human inhabitant. More so than many places, climate and terrain have done much to shape this area’s history.

Daggett County is a narrow strip of land along the northern slope of Utah’s Uinta Mountains. Bounded basically by the crest of the Uintas on the South, the Wyoming state line on the north, the Colorado state line on the east, and Summit County on the west, it is Utah’s twenty-ninth and youngest county. The East-West trending Uinta Mountains and the Green River are the county’s preeminent geographic features. The Green River generally flows from North to South, but where it strikes the Uintas it makes an abrupt turn to the east through Horseshoe and Red canyons. It curves southward again where it leaves Browns Park, a valley shared by Utah and Colorado. Dominating the landscape and history of the county are the Uinta mountains, the only major east-west mountain range in North America. The Uinta Mountains are of rather recent origin, however; much of the exposed rock in the Uintas is of great antiquity some being Precambrian metamorphic rock well over one billion years old.

Some of this rock has been broken and uplifted faulted and folded in geologic terms in the relatively recent past, after having been buried by increasing layers of sedimentation for hundreds of millions of years. The Uinta Range actually began its formation as a trough a depression in the earth periodically washed and submerged by ancient shallow seas. Over many millennia, the trough filled with sand and several layers of sediment. The Uinta uplift began some 80 million years ago during the mountain-building event called the Laramide Orogeny. Ancient layers of rock pushed up and through more recent strata, and the Uintas began to take shape as they are known today an anti-clinal fold about 160 miles long and thirty miles wide. The mountains contain twenty-six major formations, most of which are sedimentary rocks dating from the Precambrian to the Cenozoic periods. Though they contain almost no known commercially viable mineral deposits, they reveal a fossil record spanning 500 million years. The mountain range actually consists of two elliptical domelike segments that merge near the present town of Manila. During the Ice Ages, the summits, ridge lines, and canyons of the Uintas were scoured by glaciers, which produced the wide valleys in the mountains. The most dramatic glaciations occurred in the High Uintas, but glacial activity also took place along the eastern portion of the range.

Significant glaciated areas include Burnt Fork, the several forks of Sheep Creek, Beaver Creek, and Carter Creek. According to one geological study, the Burnt Fork glacier was about eleven miles in length. Complementing the geologic epic of the Uinta Mountains is the story of Green River, a legendary river of the fur trade and the Mountain West. The subsequent collapse of the eastern Uinta summit provided this lake a new route to the sea, and this upper-basin water carved a channel through Flaming Gorge, Red Canyon, Browns Park, Lodore Canyon, and Split Mountain Canyon to join the lower Green River in the Uinta Basin. In the process, the North Slope tributaries Birch Creek, Birch Spring Draw, Sheep Creek, Carter Creek, Spring Creek, Cart Creek, Jackson Creek, Red Creek, Crouse Creek, Willow Creek, and others were altered to flow southward. Within this difficult country there are sheltered drainages, valleys, and basins that are far more hospitable to people and livestock than are the surrounding windswept badlands. Henrys Fork, Browns Park, and other smaller valleys in the county have microclimates that have made them inviting to humans for thousands of years. Indeed, throughout the area there is extensive evidence of long-standing human occupation. Stone chips, projectile points, fire pits, middens, and petroglyphs suggest that the Green River corridor has been both a thoroughfare and an area of habitation for ancient peoples. At the close of the eighteenth century, the land that would become Daggett County was generally considered Shoshoni country. Both the Shoshoni and the Utes were flourishing. White men’s horses, blankets, and ironware had brought a new material prosperity and increased leisure time. There was a flowering of the arts and spiritual pursuits. But while New Spain’s conquests had stalled in the Southwest, Britain and the young American republic continued to probe the unexplored regions of the continent.

Their explorers, trappers, traders, and missionaries were traveling the inland waterways and pushing toward the Rocky Mountains. They brought more of the goods that the Indians wanted, but they also brought trouble and heartache in the form of smallpox, venereal disease, whiskey, and firearms. It was only a matter of time before white men would enter the upper basin of the Green River, and this would not bode well for the native peoples of the Uinta Mountains. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 721 square miles (1,870 km2), of which 697 square miles (1,810 km2) is land and 24 square miles (62 km2) (3.3%) is water. It is the fourth-smallest county in Utah by area.

Over 90% of the land of Daggett County is under federal ownership. Land records (especially deeds) often give the name of a spouse, heir, other relatives, or other clues for further research. They often have other clues for further research, such as witnesses or the other parties who may be relatives or in-laws. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and no negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims. County Recorder’s Office: check deeds, file mining claims, get assistance in finding ownership of a particular property, and obtain copies of county plat maps. This office has county plat records dating back to 1878, prior records having been destroyed in a fire.

How Do I find out how much I owe for Property Taxes In Daggett County

A Disclosure Notice is sent out in July to all property owners, unfortunately this is not the final notice of what your taxes will be for the year. If you do not receive your Disclosure Notice, please contact the Auditor/Recorder’s Office at 435-784-3210 ext. 405. The final rates and taxes are set in September and then the Tax notices are sent out in October. If you do not receive your Tax Notice, please contact the Clerk Treasurer’s Office at 435-784-3154. You have two options for checking your taxes and both require your parcel number: the first is COINS and the other is Instant Payments Real Property Taxes are due November 30 of any given year unless that date falls on a weekend, then it is due the following Monday. In 2018, current year taxes were due Nov 30th. Taxes notices are sent out no later than October 20th of each year, so if you do not receive your Notice, please contact the Treasurer’s Office by November 1st. It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to keep their mailing address up-to-date.

Adjacent counties

• Summit County (west)
• Duchesne County (southwest)
• Uintah County (south)
• Moffat County, Colorado (east)
• Sweetwater County, Wyoming (north)
National protected areas
• Ashley National Forest
• Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

As of the census of 2010, there were 1,059 people, 426 households, and 287 families residing in the county. The population density was 1.52 people per square mile (0.59/km²). There were 1,141 housing units at an average density of 1.63 per square mile (0.63/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 95.94% White, 0.38% Black or African American, 0.76% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 1.42% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. 3.12% of the populations were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 426 households out of which 25.12% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.37% were married couples living together, 4.93% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.63% were non-families. 29.11% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.62% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.91. In the county, the population was spread out with 23.61% under the age of 20, 3.78% from 20 to 24, 24.93% from 25 to 44, 28.71% from 45 to 64, and 18.98% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42.8 years. For every 100 females there were 129.22 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 135.17 males.

Daggett County UT Cities, Towns, & Neighborhoods
• Dutch John
• Flaming Gorge CDP
• Manila
Other Populated Places in Daggett County
• Deer Lodge Summer Home Area
• Flaming Gorge Lodge
• Flaming Gorge Summer Home Area
• San Juan County Courthouse

Friday Harbor was chosen as the county seat when San Juan became a county in 1873. Until 1906 the affairs of the new county were conducted in various wood frame buildings, the first, a 16×24 foot shack which served as the courthouse and the home of Edward Warbass, the county’s first auditor; the second, a two-story wood-frame building at the southeast corner of Spring and First streets. In 1906 the county commissioners approved plans for a new building, one that would assume graceful proportions and to be in keeping with the dignity and growing importance of San Juan County. There were structural issues early on: a collapsed roof during construction, and six months later, foundation settling. In the 1980’s, the adequacy and safety of the building again came into question and the building was vacated. Ten years later, the building became a designated national landmark, while locally the community debated over whether to save or demolish it. A special advisory ballot passed by the voters finally tipped the scales toward restoration. In 2006 the stately and historic building celebrated 100 years of government service. He few commercial establishments in Daggett County exist to service tourists and users of the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Throughout the county there is one small general store, several gas stations, five cafes or restaurants, five inns/motels, and a few miscellaneous businesses that offer raft rentals. There are also businesses that offer guided fishing trips on the Flaming Gorge Reservoir and the Green River. The economy is primarily related to recreation, management of government land, and ranching. There are no railroads within Daggett County.