Lehi, Utah
Population: 19,028
Located in Utah County
Lehi is a rapidly growing city near the Salt Lake County line. Many working in the Salt Lake City area live in the Lehi area and commute. Micron is building a large computer chip plant in Lehi. There is golf at the Johnny Miller signature course at Thanksgiving Point, or you can play the Tri City Course or the Alpine Country Club. Schools are in the Alpine School District. Near is the American Fork Canyon with the Timpanogos Cave National Monument, camping, hiking, snowmobiling, and fishing. I-15 passes through town for easy access to the Freeway. Lehi, the northernmost community in Utah Valley, was first settled by a small group of Mormons in the fall of 1850. Known as Sulphur Springs that first year, the community later was named Dry Creek and then Evansville. Early in 1852 local bishop David Evans presented a petition to the Utah Territorial Legislature requesting that the community be incorporated. This request was granted on 5 February 1852, making the town Utah's sixth oldest. Also approved was Bishop Evans's suggestion that the town be named Lehi. Like the Book of Mormon patriarch of the same name, the colonizers of Lehi had been uprooted on numerous occasions before finally settling in their promised land. Historical sites and points of interest in the area include the best-preserved portion of the Pony Express Trail in Utah (at the Point of the Mountain). Indian Ford at the Jordan River and Dugout--a Pony Express and Overland Trail station--are also located west of town. "Lehi is a good place to live," has been the community's official slogan since 1911. In addition to a safe, quiet, family-oriented environment, the town offers such recreational opportunities as Saratoga Resort to the southwest, Wines Park, Willow Park, the local Olympic-size swimming pool, Veteran's baseball park, Heritage Theatre, and the world-famous Lehi Roundup rodeo, which for the past half-century has continually drawn top cowboys from all over America. |
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