![]() ![]() Spanish Fork has a dry-summer continental climate ( Köppen: Dsa) with cold, snowy winters and hot, dry summers.Ĭlimate data for Spanish Fork Power House, Utah, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1909–present The city also lent its name to the 1865 Treaty of Spanish Fork, where the Utes were forced by an Executive Order of President Abraham Lincoln to relocate to the Uintah Basin. : 823īetween 18, the arrival of pioneers from Iceland made Spanish Fork the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States. : 256–257 Also in 1854 there was a fort founded approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the center of Spanish Fork that later was known as the "Old Fort". : 631 Some of the people did not like this site and so moved to a different site at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon, where they built a structure they called "Fort St. : 824 With the onset of the Walker War in 1853, most of the farmers in the region who were not yet in the Palmyra fort moved in. : 631–632 A fort and a school were built at the Palmyra site in 1852. Smith supervised the laying out of a townsite, including a temple square in that year. In 1852, Latter-day Saints founded a settlement called Palmyra west of the historic center of Spanish Fork. In December 1851, Stephen Markham, who was severely wounded outside Carthage Jail in Carthage, Illinois while attempting to defend Joseph Smith and other church leaders from a mob in 1844, became the president of the first church congregation (branch) at the Lower Settlement. However, a larger group congregated at what became known as the Lower Settlement just over a mile northwest of the present center of Spanish Fork along the Spanish Fork river. In 1851, some settlers led by William Pace set up scattered farms in the Spanish Fork bottom lands and called the area the Upper Settlement. Over and above these finest of advantages, it has plenty of firewood and timber in the adjacent sierra which surrounds it-many sheltered spots, waters, and pasturages, for raising cattle and sheep and horses." They described the area inhabited by Native Americans as having "spreading meadows, where there is sufficient irrigable land for two good settlements. Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route later followed by fur trappers. Spanish Fork was settled in 1851 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of the Mormon Pioneers' settlement of Utah Territory. Payson is approximately six miles to the southwest, Springville lies about four miles to the northeast, and Salem is approximately 4.5 miles to the south. I-15 passes the northwest side of the city. Spanish Fork lies in the Utah Valley, with the Wasatch Range to the east and Utah Lake to the northwest. Spanish Fork, Utah is the 20th largest city in Utah based on official 2017 estimates from the US Census Bureau. The 2020 census reported a population of 42,602. ![]() It is part of the Provo– Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. Spanish Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. ![]()
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