Main city: Lapoint
Timezone: Mountain
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Ubta-ubet Communicatins DBA Strata Networks

Lapoint, an unincorporated community in western Uintah County, Utah, United States, on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. It lies along State Route 121 west of the city of Vernal, the county seat of Uintah County. Its elevation is 5,568 feet (1,697 m). Although Lapoint is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 84039. Originally named Taft in honor of William Howard Taft, its name was changed to Lapoint since it lies on a southward-jutting spur or "point" of the Uinta Mountains. ^source

North American Area Code 435 is a telephone area code which covers all of the U.S. state of Utah outside the Wasatch Front (which includes the Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Provo metropolitan areas in northern Utah). It split from the 801 area code on 21 September 1997, and includes Beaver, Brigham City, Castle Dale, Cedar City, Coalville, Duchense, Fillmore, Heber City, Hurricane, Junction, Kanab, Loa, Logan, Manila, Manti, Moab, Monticello, Nephi, Park City, Panguitch, Parowan, Price, Randolph, Richfield, St. George, Tooele, Washington, and Vernal. Before Area Code 435 entered service, 801 had been Utah's sole area code for half a century. ^source