Daggett County, Utah

Daggett County is very small, but it has lots of scenic wonders.  It is in the northeast corner of Utah. It touches Wyoming to the north and Colorado to the east. It’s in the Rocky Mountain region. Daggett County was named for Ellsworth Daggett, who was the first surveyor-general of Utah.

Today, only nine hundred twenty-one people live in all of Daggett County. The county seat of Daggett County is Manila. It is almost two hundred miles away from Salt Lake City. Three hundred forty people live in the city of Manila.

Dutch John is the only other community in Daggett County besides Manila. Its population is about two hundred fifty people. The city was built along with the Flaming Gorge Dam. Dutch John used to be owned by the government, but in October 1998, it was no longer owned by the government.

Linwood was a community in Daggett County, but it was flooded when the Flaming George Dam was completed. Most of the people living there moved to Manila when that happened.

The Flaming George Dam is the biggest recreational area in Daggett County. It produces so much energy that it could fill a city with lights that has one hundred eighty thousand people.       

The land in Daggett County is covered in forests and mountains and has a high elevation. The county’s area is seven hundred twenty –three square miles. Six-hundred ninety-eight square miles is land, and twenty-five square miles is water.

The agriculture in Daggett County includes livestock, hay, and alfalfa. The businesses that they have there are tourism, livestock, hunting, lumbering, and electric power. The natural resources of Daggett County are water and lumber. They are used for lumbering, drinking water, and electricity.

Daggett County’s popular recreational area is the Flaming Gorge Reservoir. There is a national park in Daggett County called the Ashley National Forest. Before the county was established, Shoshone and Ute Native American tribes roamed through Daggett County.

There are some interesting facts about Daggett County. There are no railroads in Daggett County. There are five motels, five restaurants, three gas stations, and one small general store in the whole county. The most interesting fact is that it’s the newest and least populated county in Utah. It was once part of Uintah County, but it broke off in 1918.

Moose, elk, and deer live in the woods of Daggett County. Antelope and bighorn sheep live in the area also. There are many fun recreational things to do in Daggett County. You can go biking, fishing, boating, camping, and hiking there.

There is an interesting story that happened in Daggett County.  There was once a rumor that there were diamonds in the mountains around Daggett County. Many people went there to find the diamonds. People came all the way from Europe to find them! The mountains were explored over and over again, but they soon found that the rumor wasn’t true. There actually weren’t any diamonds!

Although Daggett County is very small, it has many wonders. It has awesome mountains and cool lakes. Daggett County is a very beautiful and dramatic county.