Springville, Utah
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Location in Utah
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1850 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Utah | ||
| County : | Utah County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 10 ′ N , 111 ° 37 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 29,605 (as of 2009) | ||
| Population density : | 990.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 29.9 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) of which 29.9 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 1396 m | ||
| Postal code : | 84663 | ||
| Area code : | +1 385, 801 | ||
| FIPS : | 49-72280 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1446057 | ||
| Website : | www.springville.org | ||
Springville is a city in Utah County in the US state of Utah with almost 30,000 inhabitants in 2009. It is located in the Utah Valley on the shore area between Utah Lake and the Wasatch Mountains , with predominantly built-up areas on the slope under the mountains and portions close to the shore of the urban area are still predominantly used for agriculture. The place adjoins Provo, the largest city in the Utah Valley and the county seat of Utah County.
The city calls itself Utah Art City because it has the oldest art museum in Utah and is proud of its cultural scene.
history
Springville is one of the original settlements established in 1850 by Mormon pioneers on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in the Utah Valley to expand the settlement area for church members from the neighboring Salt Lake Valley to the north .
Originally, the whole region was the territory of the eponymous Ute Indians. The first whites on Utah Lake were the members of the Dominguez Escalante expedition of two Spanish Franciscan Fathers in 1776. In the 1820s, fur hunters and traders came to the area and were the first whites to stay longer there.
The first settlers named their place and the stream coming from the mountains Hobble Creek , because they only had to hobble their horses loosely in the brook valley and did not build pens. Only three years after the first settlement, the settlement was registered as a incorporated city in 1853 and thus became an independent city. The name was subsequently changed to today's Springville, after the many hillside springs. Hobble Creek, however, remained the name of the creek, the canyon in which the creek emerges from the mountains, and today also the golf course that developed around the headwaters.
The small Hobble Creek did not offer enough water for the planned size of the settlement, only relatively few farms could exist on the good, but too dry soil. Therefore, some residents turned to ranching and built up herds of cattle and sheep. They overexploited the grazing land in Hobble Creek Canyon, the vegetation cover was destroyed and the soil exposed to erosion . This was followed by flooding of the settlements below the mountains, which sparked a long-running conflict between farmers and ranchers. In 1902 the matter was investigated by the US Department of Agriculture and the mountains above the city were placed under the administration of the fledgling United States Forest Service .
As a result of the conflict with the ranchers, agriculture also changed in the village. The residents of Springville took advantage of new funding opportunities for irrigation systems by the federal government and, like other settlements in the Utah Valley, largely switched to growing fruit on the one hand and sugar beet on the other. Energy was required for irrigation, which is why the first small hydroelectric power station was built in Hobble Creek Canyon in 1904 . It has been expanded several times since then and continues to supply the city with electricity to this day.
As early as 1856, some of the settlers had expanded the agricultural areas to the south and cleared the so-called Union Field . Due to sporadic conflicts with the Indians, it was only used to a greater extent after the Ute had been forced into an Indian reservation in 1869 . The second settlement in the Springville area grew slowly and gained independence as Mapleton in 1901 in connection with the establishment of an irrigation system .
Springville today
Since the 1990s, the city has been transformed from an agricultural community into a suburb of Provo, which now belongs to the agglomeration on the east bank of Utah Lake Springville. The city would like to benefit from the fact that the settlement activity took place predominantly below the mountains, and therefore the parts of the lake level belonging to the municipality are largely available as a reserve area. Since the Interstate Highway 15 and the rail line from Salt Lake City run south there, the city has good conditions for locating businesses.
In 2000, Springville was economically far weaker than the region's average. The median household income was $ 46,472 for the year, compared to $ 56,752 for the Utah Valley. In the decade between 2000 and 2010, the city grew massively by around half of the previous population and increasingly attracted wealthier residents. By 2008 the median household income had already grown to $ 54,155. The proportion of residents with college degrees was still a low 28.5% for Utah in 2000, while it had increased to 43.3% by 2010.
Springville is home to the oldest art museum in Utah. As early as 1903 the small high school received two paintings from local artists, further works of art were added in 1907 and the school began collecting donations in order to be able to expand the small collection with purchases. Since 1921 there has been an annual exhibition with current works by local and regional artists and in 1925 the collection became legally independent of the school as the Springville Museum of Art . During the Great Depression , the arts were also promoted under the New Deal : In 1935 the Works Progress Administration began planning to expand the collection, for which local donations were raised. In 1937 the museum moved into its own building in the Spanish colonial style , which has since been expanded several times with the growing collection. The museum primarily displays works by Utah artists and works created in Utah. Since 1993, it has also been building up a collection of Socialist Realism that came about as a result of donations from a local collector. This collection is the largest of its kind in the western United States and, according to the museum, draws half of its visitors.
The city is accessed by Interstate Highway 15 west of the settlement and the parallel US Highway 89 in the settlement area.
Personalities
- Cyrus Dallin (1861–1944), sculptor and archer
- Vern G. Swanson (* 1945), art historian
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the history of Springville is based on the Springville entry in the Utah History Encyclopedia , online on the Utah Education Network
- Jump up ↑ Springville City: Hobble Creek, Springville's First name
- ^ A b c d Springville City: A Profile of Springville, Utah , 2010
- ↑ a b US Census Bureau: Springville ( Memento from January 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 40 kB), as of 2000
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Utah County - Income , as of 2000
- ^ Springville Museum of Art: History of the Museum , as of February 2011