Fort Duchesne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 546 at the 2020 census, a decrease from the 2010 figure of 714.
Fort Duchesne was originally a fort, established by the United States Army in 1886 and closed in 1912. The community developed around it within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, established in 1864. Several bands of Ute were forced on to the reservation about 1880.
The headquarters of the Ute Indian Tribe are located here. Its reservation includes much of Uintah and nearby counties.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.7 square miles (19.8 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 7.0 square miles (18.2 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.6 square mile (1.7 km<sup>2</sup>) (8.36%) is water.
Demographics
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Fort Duchesne CDP, Utah – Racial composition<br><small></small>
!Race <small>(NH = Non-Hispanic)</small>
!
!% 2010
!% 2000
!
!Pop 2010
!Pop 2000
|-
|White alone (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7.3%
|3.4%
|5.2%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |40
|24
|32
|-
|Black alone (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0%
|0.1%
|0%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|1
|0
|-
|American Indian alone (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |83.9%
|91.9%
|85.5%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |458
|656
|531
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0%
|0.1%
|0.2%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|1
|1
|-
|Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0%
|0%
|0%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0
|0
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0%
|0%
|0%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0
|0
|-
|Multiracial (NH)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5.3%
|2%
|4%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |29
|14
|25
|-
|Hispanic/Latino (any race)
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.5%
|2.5%
|5.2%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |19
|18
|32
|}
The detailed ancestries reported in 2020 were Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation (39.6%) and Ute (32.6%).
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="font-size: 90%;"
|-
! Languages (2000) !! Percent
|-
| Spoke English at home || 75.82%
|-
| Spoke Colorado River Numic at home || 19.86%
|-
| Spoke Shoshoni at home || 2.59%
|-
| Spoke Navajo at home || 1.73%
|-
|}
As of the census
Notable residents
- Danny Lopez, world champion professional boxer and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Ernie Lopez's brother
- Ernie Lopez, top ranked professional boxer, Danny Lopez's brother
See also
- List of census-designated places in Utah
References
Further reading
- "Fort Duchesne", Utah History Encyclopedia
External links
- Gary Lee Walker, research on Fort Duchesne, Utah, MSS 6856 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University