Mapleton, Utah
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Location in Utah
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1856 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Utah | ||
| County : | Utah County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 8 ′ N , 111 ° 35 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 8,440 (as of 2009) | ||
| Population density : | 353.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 23.9 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 23.9 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 1442 m | ||
| Postal code : | 84664 | ||
| Area code : | +1 385, 801 | ||
| FIPS : | 49-47950 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1443189 | ||
| Website : | www.mapleton.org | ||
Mapleton is a city in Utah County in the US state of Utah with 8440 inhabitants (as of 2009). It is located in the southwest of the Utah Valley below the Wasatch Mountains on the edge of the shores of Utah Lake . It was founded as an agricultural settlement in the neighboring Springville to the north and has been growing massively since the 1990s, thanks to the transformation of the settlement character into a suburb of the Provo / Orem metropolitan region .
history
The entire Utah Valley was originally the habitat and grazing area of the eponymous Ute Indians.
The city emerged from an outlying settlement called Union Field , which was built by residents of Springville, about 8 km away, in 1856, only six years after the founding of the mother settlement. The first residents were Mormon pioneers dispatched by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City to colonize the Utah Valley, which borders the Great Salt Lake Valley to the south . The first name Union Field goes back to the fact that the first settlers dug, cleared and cultivated an irrigation ditch and the fields in collective ownership , based on the community of property of the Jerusalem community .
A systematic settlement only got underway after the Ute Indians were forced into a reservation in 1869 . Now the plots were individually assigned under the Homestead Act ; The members of the community of property of the United Order had the first access to the settlement property , but there were a number of serious disputes that had to be settled by the bishop of the church. There are records of 18 families in the settlement in 1877, the first school was built in 1884, and in 1887 the settlers founded their own local congregation within the Church of Jesus Christ. They named them Mapleton after a group of maple trees in the settlement area.
The supply of water for irrigation of the fields and also the supply of arable land became too small as the families grew. The settlers were dissatisfied with the administration by Springville, whose local council did not provide them with sufficient funds for the development of the infrastructure. As a result, residents turned to Parliament in Salt Lake City in 1901 and applied for a spin-off from Springville under the name already used by the parish. It was granted in the same year and Mapleton was initially independent with the status of a town .
The city flourished under self-government, in particular large sums of money were donated from the private assets of its wealthier citizens. In the first ten years, a new school building, road expansion, a church building and sewers were financed, as well as an unusually large number of trees on avenues and in public green spaces. In 1913, the community signed a contract with the Utah Power and Light Company for electricity, and in 1918 the irrigation system for the fields was expanded. In 1948 Mapleton was recognized as a City .
Mapleton today
The population in Mapleton grew only slowly in the first decades, even as more and more residents commuted to the economic center of Provo and Orem from the 1950s onwards , because the town under the mountains but away from larger watercourses could no longer develop the irrigated part of its arable land. As in the Utah Valley in general, that didn't change until the 1990s. Since then, massive single-family housing estates have been built on the poorly cultivated land and Mapleton has systematically developed into a suburb. The city grew from 3500 residents in 1990 to about 8500 in 2010. Mapleton attracted above-average wealthy residents, the median household income was $ 60,985 in 2000, while Utah County averaged $ 56,752. However, the population of Mapleton has a significantly below average level of education, only 25.9% of the population has a college degree, while Utah County comes to 34.7%.
The city has considerable reserves of land in the southern half of the municipal area, which are still used for agriculture, and plans to continue growing until 2020 and then have around 20,000 inhabitants.
The city is connected to the northern economic centers by US Highway 89 . It has merged with Springville in the north, and Spanish Fork borders in the west and south-west .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the place is based on: Utah History Encyclopedia: Mapleton ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on the Utah Education Network
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Mapleton , as of 2010
- ↑ a b US Census Bureau: Mapleton ( Memento of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 40 kB), as of 2000
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Utah County - Income , as of 2000
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Utah County - Education , as of 2000
- ^ City of Mapleton: Facts & Demographics
