Uintah Lake is one of many lakes in

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Duchesne County Duchesne County ( ) is a county in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 18,607. Its county seat is Duchesne, and the largest city is Roosevelt. History Much of Duchesne County was ...

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. The lake is at an elevation of . The lake has a rough oval shape about long by wide oriented east–west. The lake lies just east of a northwest–southeast trending ridgeline with an unnamed peak about to the south at an elevation of and another about to the northwest at an elevation of . Spread Eagle Peak on the Duchesne-

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county line lies to the northwest and has an elevation of .''Hayden Peak, Utah,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1972 Although it has a slightly different spelling, the name of the lake has the same

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as the

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in which it is located.

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Lakes of Duchesne County, Utah {{Utah-geo-stub