Lapoint’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Lapoint. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from the U.S. CensusHalf of its homes were built before 1964.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lapoint yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Start Lapoint’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lapoint’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewIrrigation Canals in the Uinta Ba…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lapoint, decade by decade
2000
unknown4 items
Nothing in Lapoint is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lapoint has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Wong Sing Warehouse in Fort Duchesne, 7.9 miles away.
Lapoint and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, Deep Creek Canal, Duchesne, Duchesne County, UT and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.