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1880

Vernal, the county seat, was set up around 1880 when the residents of the area were protecting themselves from a group of hostile Indians.

Ashley Valley was not part of either reservation, and by 1880 enough ranchers and farmers had settled there that the territorial legislature created Uintah County, taking most of the land from Wasatch County.

1888

In about 1888 Gilsonite was discovered in various parts of the county and on the eastern portion of the Uncompahgre and Uintah reservations.

1898

In 1898, following an effective campaign by national and local mining interests, the government took Uncompahgre Indian Reservation land away from the Utes and threw it open to outside miners and settlers.

1902

The county held its first organized rodeo in 1902.

1915

In 1915 President Woodrow Wilson created Dinosaur National Monument.

1948

Oil flowing from Utah's first commercial oil well, the Ashley Valley #1, 10 miles southeast of Vernal, in 1948.

1955

Floyd Wilkins working to explose bones at Dinosaur National Monument, in 1955.

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