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Spanish Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is portion of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 40,913 as of a 2019 estimate. Spanish Fork, Utah is the 20th largest city in Utah based on official 2017 estimates from the US Census Bureau.

Spanish Fork lies in the Utah Valley, with the Wasatch Range to the east and Utah Lake to the northwest. I-15 passes the northwest side of the city. Payson is nearly six miles to the southwest, Springville lies very nearly four miles to the northeast, and Salem is nearly 4.5 miles to the south.

Spanish Fork was contracted in 1851 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as ration of the Mormon Pioneers’ settlement of Utah Territory. Its publicize derives from a visit to the Place by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream alongside Spanish Fork canyon later than the ambition of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route well along followed by fur trappers.[citation needed] They described the area inhabited by Native Americans as having “spreading meadows, where there is acceptable irrigable home for two great settlements. Over and above these finest of advantages, it has plenty of firewood and timber in the next-door sierra which surrounds its many sheltered spots, waters, and pasturages, for raising cattle and sheep and horses.”[citation needed]