5000 West, Roosevelt

Open ground in Duchesne County

You're standing on 5000 West, a rural road near Roosevelt and Ioka, out on open farmland in Duchesne County.
Last reviewed 20 October 2026 · A two-minute read · 1906–2012
The short answer

5000 West is a gravel-and-pavement rural road west of Roosevelt, Utah, running through Duchesne County farmland of hay fields, grazing, and scattered houses. County records show a house built here in 2012 on a 69-acre parcel addressed to both 2000 South and 5000 West, the only dated structure tied to this plot.

2012 to now

Open farmland sits between Roosevelt and Ioka

You're standing on 5000 West, a gravel-and-pavement road running through open farm country west of Roosevelt, Utah. The ground around you is quiet acreage, the kind of land that in Duchesne County mostly means hay fields, grazing, and a scatter of houses spaced far apart.

The county's own records show a house built here in 2012, sitting on a 69-acre parcel addressed to both 2000 South and 5000 West. That single entry is the oldest dated fact tied to this exact plot.

Roosevelt, the nearest town, sits a short drive east. Ioka, a smaller hamlet first recorded in 1915, lies about two miles away, closer to the badlands above the Duchesne River.

2012 to now

A builder raised a house here in 2012

In 2012, a builder put up the house standing here now, over 68,000 square feet of building recorded on the lot. The county's record stops there: a single sale, a single structure, no history before it.

The house still stands alone on its 69 acres, with hay ground and grazing land running out to the horizon on every side.

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Where this is

40.273°N 110.089°W TILE ≈ 1.2 × 0.6 KM
Place
5000 West
Town
Roosevelt
Country
United States
Tile
≈1.2 × 0.6 km (geohash6)
Last reviewed
20 October 2026

The layers, in order

Sourced records, high and medium confidence. Era background is marked as such.
Modern
A small corner of Utah's land surveys run off their own baseline, the Uintah Special Meridian, whose base and meridian lines cross in Roosevelt and set the grid your street number comes from.
The street name is a measurement, not a memory: Roosevelt counts its numbered streets outward from State Street, so '5000 West' just marks the distance from that line.
1905
This part of the Uinta Basin was Ute reservation land until Congress opened it to homestead claims in 1905, and settlers streamed in through that winter.
Era background — not a record of this tile · Utah History Encyclopedia – Roosevelt
1906
In early 1906 Ed Harmston turned his own homestead claim into a townsite and laid out plots, first calling it Dry Gulch City after a wash that only ran in spring.
1907
The nearby hamlet of Ioka was established in 1907, first within Wasatch County before it was folded into the newly created Duchesne County in 1915.
FamilySearch Places · record, medium
1914
A few kilometers off, Ioka Cemetery was established in 1914, the resting place for the settlers who homesteaded this stretch of the basin.
FamilySearch Places · record, medium
1914
Local governance reached this corner of the basin early: Ioka's own election precinct was organized in 1914, the year before Duchesne County itself was formed.
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2012
County records show the residence at 5476 W 2000 S & 1868 S 5000 W was built in 2012 on a 69-acre parcel, the lot's only recorded structure.

Questions about this place

Answered in one sentence, then in full above
What was here before the house on 5000 West?
The county's record shows no structure on the parcel before 2012; that year's house is the only dated fact tied to this exact plot.
When was the house on 5000 West built?
The house was built in 2012, standing over 68,000 square feet on a 69-acre parcel addressed to both 2000 South and 5000 West.
Why is the road called 5000 West?
The name marks distance rather than history: Roosevelt counts its numbered streets outward from State Street, so 5000 West simply records how far the road lies from that line.
What town is nearest to 5000 West?
Roosevelt lies a short drive east, and Ioka, a smaller hamlet first recorded in 1915, lies about two miles away, closer to the badlands above the Duchesne River.
What grid system does the address come from?
The address derives from the Uintah Special Meridian, a separate Utah land survey baseline whose base and meridian lines cross in Roosevelt.

Where this came from

1
Hugh McKenna family history – Roosevelt, Utah — Roosevelt began as 'Dry Gulch City'
2
Utah Geospatial Resource Center – The Western Grid, Explained — A grid of your own: the Uintah Special Meridian
3
Moving Utah – Roosevelt guide — Why it's called 5000 West
4
FamilySearch Places — Ioka, a few kilometers east, took its name a year after Roosevelt's founding
5
FamilySearch Places — Ioka Cemetery opened in 1914
6
FamilySearch Places — Election Precinct 16, Ioka
7
Utah county assessor via UGRC parcel layer — The house on this lot went up in 2012

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