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Vernal is the county seat of and the largest city in Uintah County, Utah, about 175 miles east of Salt Lake City and 20 miles west of the Colorado border.

The 2020 census counted 10,079 people in Vernal, with 3,796 households.

Vernal was settled in 1876 in Ashley Valley in the Uintah Basin, and unlike most Utah towns it was not settled by Mormons moving across the state; Brigham Young's 1861 scouting party had reported the basin good for nothing but hunting grounds.

The area had been set aside in 1861 as the Uintah Indian Reservation, and settlers filtered in afterward, building cabins along Ashley Creek and nearly perishing in the Hard Winter of 1879.

Vernal serves as a gateway to Dinosaur National Monument, Flaming Gorge, and the Uinta Mountains, one of the relatively few mountain ranges in the United States that runs east to west.

Vernal's economy is based on extracting natural resources, including petroleum, natural gas, phosphate, and uintaite, more commonly known as gilsonite, with branch offices of companies such as Halliburton and Schlumberger.

The Bank of Vernal, built in 1916 and 1917, is known as the Bank that was sent by Mail because businessman William H. Coltharp shipped some 80,000 masonry bricks to Vernal in fifty-pound packages through the U.S. Parcel Post system.

The Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo, a PRCA rodeo held in Vernal during the second weekend of July, has been running since the 1930s and attracts more than 500 contestants each year.

Vernal is home to the Vernal Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to a regional campus of Utah State University.

The Vernal Express, the city's newspaper, was first published in 1891 as the Uintah Papoose.