Mapleton (Utah)

Utah County

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Mapleton is a city in Utah County in the U.S. state of Utah with 8440 inhabitants ( 2009). It is located in the southwest of the Utah Valley below the Wasatch Mountains on the edge of the shore level of Utah Lake. It was founded as an agricultural settlement in the north adjacent Springville and growing massively since about the 1990s, thanks to the transformation character of the settlement to a suburb of the Provo / Orem metropolitan area

History

The entire Utah Valley was originally habitat and home range of the eponymous Ute Indians.

The city emerged from an outside settlement called Union Field, who crafted by residents of around 8 km away Villes Spring 1856, only six years after the founding of the mother colony. The first inhabitants were Mormon pioneers who had been sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah Valley to settle in the adjoining south to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. The first name Union Field goes back to the fact that the first settlers an irrigation ditch and the fields in collective ownership, based on the community property of the Jerusalem church, docked, cleared and farmed.

A systematic colonization came but it was in transition after the Ute Indians were forced in 1869 to a reserve. Now the land after the Homestead Act were awarded individually; Although the members of the community property of the United Order had the first access to the settlement land, but there were a number of serious disputes had to be settled by the bishop of the church. For the year 1877 18 families in the village are demonstrated in 1884 the first school was built in 1887 founded the settlers their own local community within the church of Jesus Christ. This they called Mapleton, after a group of maple trees in the settlement area.

The supply of water for the irrigation of the fields and also the supply of arable land was too small, as the families grew. The settlers were dissatisfied with the administration through Springville, whose council asked them not have sufficient resources for the development of infrastructure. In response, the inhabitants turned to Parliament in 1901 in Salt Lake City and applied for the spin-off from Springville under the name that was already used by the congregation. It was granted in the same year and Mapleton self first with the status of a Town.

Under the self-administration the city flourished, especially large sums from the personal assets of more affluent citizens were donated. In the first decade of a new school building, road construction, a church building and sewers were financed, this also unusually large number of trees along boulevards and public parks. 1913 closed the municipality a contract with the Utah Power and Light Company for the supply of electricity and 1918 the irrigation system for the fields was expanded. 1948 Mapleton was recognized as a City.

Mapleton today

The population in Mapleton grew slowly in the early decades, as in the 1950s, more and more residents commuted into the economic center of Provo and Orem because the city under the mountains but away from larger watercourses the irrigated part of their land could no longer expand. As in the Utah Valley generally, this changed only in the 1990s. Since then, housing estates were built on the massive bad to farm soil and Mapleton developed to systematically suburb. The city .. From 3500 inhabitants in 1990 grew to about 8500 in 2009 Here Mapleton attracted above average wealthy residents, the median household income in 2000 was $ 60,985, while Utah County averaged $ 56,752. However, the inhabitants Mapletons have a significantly lower average level of education, only 25.9 % of the population has a college degree, while Utah County comes to 34.7 %.

The city has in the southern half of the municipal area has significant land reserves, which are not yet used for agricultural purposes, and plans by 2020 to continue to grow and then to have about 20,000 inhabitants.

The city is connected by U.S. Highway 89 to the northern industrial centers. They grew together in the north with Springville, in the west and southwest borders of Spanish Fork.