Spanish Fork, Utah

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Local Information for Spanish Fork, UT

Latitude: 40.104546 -- Longitude: -111.639954

Other Area Cities:   Spanish Fork  Mapleton  Orem  Provo  Salem  Springville  Payson 

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Spanish Fork was settled by Mormon pioneers in 1850. Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan Friars, 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. They described the area inhabited by native Americans as having "spreading meadows, where there is sufficient irrigable land for two good settlements. Over and above these finest of advantages, it has plenty of firewood and timber in the adjacent sierra which surrounds its many sheltered spots, waters, and pasturages, for raising cattle and sheep and horses."Between 1855 and 1860, the arrival of pioneers from Iceland made Spanish Fork into the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States. -- Source: Wikipedia.com