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Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 25 Utah County towns.

The oldest is Provo, established 1850. The largest by population is Provo (115,162).

Town	Established	Population
Alpine	1855	10,251
American Fork	1853	33,337
Bluffdale	1978	17,014
Cedar Fort	1965	427
Cedar Hills	1977	10,019
Draper	1978	51,017
Eagle Mountain	1996	43,623
Elk Ridge	1976	4,687
Fairfield	2004	160
Genola	1935	1,548
Goshen	1910	978
Highland	1977	19,348
Lehi	1852	75,907
Lindon	1924	11,397
Mapleton	1901	11,365
Orem	–	98,129
Payson	1853	21,101
Pleasant Grove	1855	37,726
Provo	1850	115,162
Salem	1920	9,298
Saratoga Springs	1997	37,696
Spanish Fork	1855	42,602
Springville	1853	35,268
Vineyard	1989	12,543
Woodland Hills	1979	1,521

About these towns

Alpine: The area, which would one day become Alpine, was settled by William Wordsworth and several other homesteading families in the fall of 1850.

American Fork: The area around Utah Lake was used as a seasonal hunting and fishing ground by the Ute Indians. American Fork was settled in 1850 by Mormon pioneers and incorporated as Lake City in 1852.

Bluffdale: Bluffdale, named for its geography of bluffs and dales, was first settled in 1848–1849, when the area was originally part of West Jordan.

Cedar Fort: It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Cedar Hills: The city began growing rapidly during the 1990s and is located east of Alpine and Highland on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos.

Draper: In the fall of 1849, Ebenezer Brown brought cattle to graze along the mountain stream of South Willow Creek. The next spring, Ebenezer moved with his wife Phebe Draper Palmer Brown and their family to settle in Sivogah, the Native American name for the area, which means "willows." By the end of 1850, residents of the small settlement consisted of…

Eagle Mountain: In 1994, a trio of men bought about 8,000 acres in the Cedar Valley of western Utah County at a bankruptcy auction, under the company names of "TI Mortgage" and "Monte Vista Ranch".

Elk Ridge: The area that later became Elk Ridge was originally part of Goosenest Ranch at the foot of Mount Loafer at the southern end of Utah County southeast of Salem and Payson.

Fairfield: The town was founded in 1855 when John Carson, his four brothers, and others settled in the Cedar Valley. The settlement was soon known as Frogtown.

Genola: It is part of the Provo–Orem metropolitan area.

Goshen: It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Highland: It is approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Salt Lake City and is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Lehi: A group of Mormon pioneers settled the area now known as Lehi in the fall of 1850 at a place called Dry Creek in the northernmost part of Utah Valley.

Lindon: Originally settled in 1861, Lindon began as pioneers moved into what was then the Lindon grazing land. The town was originally named "String Town" because of the way the houses were strung up and down the street between the towns of Orem and Pleasant Grove.

Mapleton: The area was first settled in 1850, and for a time was known as Union Bench. It started as an agricultural extension of Springville.

Orem: At one time the area was known as Sharon, a Biblical name for a mostly level strip of land running between mountains and the sea, and the name of the Vermont birth town of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Payson: Pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by James Edward Pace Jr. first settled what is now Payson, Utah.

Pleasant Grove: Henson Walker Jr, a prominent Mormon pioneer, migrated to Utah as Captain and scout of the Brigham Young Vanguard Company. Henson served as bodyguard to the Prophet Joseph Smith, a Major in the Nauvoo Legion and the first mayor of Pleasant Grove in 1854.

Provo: The Provo area was originally called Timpanogas, a Numic (Ute people) word perhaps meaning "rock river". The area was inhabited by the Timpanogos.

Salem: Salem was later named after New Salem, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Lyman Curtis, to honor his contributions to the community. Curtis was a bodyguard for Joseph Smith.

Saratoga Springs: The natural hot springs near the source of the Jordan River inspired early European-American settlers to create a resort known as Beck's Saratoga Springs, named after the original New York resort and owner John Beck.

Spanish Fork: 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.

Springville: The first European explorer of what is now Springville was Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Franciscan padre, in 1776. 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.

Vineyard: Population has grown dramatically since about 2012 due to redevelopment of the former Geneva Steel site which sits in Vineyard and was idle since Geneva went out of business in 2002.

Woodland Hills: It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. Woodland Hills became a city at the end of 2000.