Springville, Utah Springville, Utah Location in Utah County and the state of Utah Location in Utah County and the state of Utah Springville is a town/city in Utah County, Utah, United States that is part of the Provo-Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area.
A several minutes drive south of Provo,Springville is a bedroom improve for commuters who work in the Springville, Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City urbane areas.
Springville has the nickname of "Art City" or "Hobble Creek".
What became Springville lay along the wagon route called the Mormon Road that Mormon pioneers and 49ers traveled through southern Utah, northern Arizona, southern Nevada and Southern California.
From 1855, each winter trains of freight wagons traveled on this road athwart the deserts between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City until the late 1860s when the barns appeared in Utah. Springville was originally settled in 1850 by eight pioneer families who crossed the plains to Salt Lake Valley from the East and were later directed by Brigham Young to settle 50 miles (80 km) further south.
Incorporated in February 1853, the town/city was first called Hobble Creek by the early pioneers, because their horses were often hobbled (by loosely tying their front feet together) and left along the stream to graze in the lush grass.
Later, as the town grew, the name was changed to Springville, after the Fort Springville.
Fort Springville was titled such because of the many contaminating springs in the area, especially near the fort.
The initial name was not completely lost, however, as the canyon stream (and associated canyons), a small-town elementary school, and town/city owned golf course have retained the name Hobble Creek. Springville is known as "Art City" due to its strong evolution of the arts.
Springville is home to the Springville Museum of Art, Utah's earliest exhibition for the visual fine arts (circa 1937). The exhibition, homed in a historic Spanish Colonial Revival-style building, showcases collections of many well-known artists, both small-town and national, including collections of Utah art, a primary Soviet collection, early Americana, and the European Steed collection.
Springville is the place of birth of noted sculptor Cyrus Dallin.
Springville is a grow community which has experienced steady expansion over the past ten years.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.4 square miles (37.4 km2), of which 14.4 square miles (37.2 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.34%, is water. Springville is positioned on the west side of the Wasatch Mountain Range and 3 miles (5 km) east of the average shoreline of Utah Lake and nearly entirely east of Interstate 15.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 37.4% under the age of 18, 12.7% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 14.0% from 45 to 64, and 7.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The heavily weighted 18- to 24-year-old demographic is largely due to the town/city slowly attracting pupils and graduates from the small-town Brigham Young University, positioned the adjoining town/city of Provo, as well as Utah Valley University in the close-by city of Orem.
Major businesses/employers in Springville include the following: Flowserve, manufacturer of large valves, has a facility positioned in Springville's Industrial Park.
Stouffer's, a division of Nestle, also has a plant positioned in Springville's Industrial Park Art City Days, held each year in early June, is one of the first town/city celebrations of the summer season in Utah Valley.
Springville is also home to the Springville World Folkfest, a seven-day celebration of folk dance and music held every July at the outside amphitheater in the Spring Acres Arts Park.
Folkfest performers are homed by host families in the Springville area.
Every May, Springville hosts the annual Indian Festival of Utah also in Spring Acres Arts Park, the state's only cultural event devoted to East Indian, Pakistani, and South Asian communities athwart the Salt Lake City urbane area.
Formerly held in close-by Spanish Fork, it represents the small but grow Indian American and South Asian American communities of northern Utah.
Springville is served by Nebo School District.
Public schools in this precinct within Springville include Springville High School, Springville Junior High School, Art City Elementary, Brookside Elementary, Cherry Creek Elementary, Sage Creek Elementary, and Westside Elementary.
Reagan Academy and Merit Academy, both charter schools, are also positioned in Springville.
The previous Springville Middle School building was converted into Cherry Creek Elementary when the Nebo School District reformed the school system, sending 6th graders back to elementary schools and the 7th graders to the junior high schools.
Climate data for Springville, Utah This building functioned as the Springville, Utah enhance library from 1922 to 1965, when the library was moved to a newer building.
A section of Springville, Utah Main Street showing the Central Bank and close-by buildings.
The Springville, Utah Civic Center building with Dallin Pioneer Mother Memorial.
This memorial to Springville Utah's pioneer mothers was unveiled in 1932 by sculptor Cyrus Dallin, who had been born in Springville in 1861.
This Springville Utah Main Street scene has the snowy Wasatch Mountains as background.
The Art City's Art Museum is on 400 South.
About Utah Valley, Utah History, Utah City Histories "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Springville city, Utah".
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