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History
of Tridell, Utah
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Taken
from the Utah Place Names (Links Added)
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TRIDELL Tridell (Uintah) is a small agricultural community twenty miles north of Roosevelt on U-246 and the junction of three canyons. John W. Van Cott |
The
following was submitted by Crae Hancock, a resident of Tridell
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Tridell
has a Mormon
Church and a post office that was built by Levi
Kitchen. Originally it was a country store. Tridell, as you can see
by the name, is a series of hills, dells and valleys. There are
no stores
and no restaurants. There is one small airport that belongs to a Mr.
Goodrich. Several airplanes of other owners are kept there and several
other planes come in for repairs by Mr. Goodrich. Tridell
has 5 individual Dairy farms and one large commercial feedlot.
The population
is around 200. Several homes and farms are owned by Ute Indians. Tridell
is about 12 miles east of Whiterocks and is located in the south foothills
of the Whiterocks canyon of the Uintah
mountains. Tridell also has
two sawmills. |
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