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American Fork is a city in north-central Utah County, Utah, United States, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range, north of Utah Lake. It is allocation of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 33,161 in 2019, representing a approximately 20% growth previously the 2000 census. The city has grown snappishly since the 1970s.

The Place around Utah Lake was used as a seasonal hunting and fishing pitch by the Ute Indians. American Fork was contracted in 1850 by Mormon pioneers, and incorporated as Lake City in 1852. The first settlers were Arza Adams, followed by Stephen Chipman (grandfather of Stephen L. Chipman, a prominent citizen roughly the Begin of the 20th Century), Ira Eldredge, John Eldredge and their families.

The first settlers of American Fork lived in scattered conditions along the American Fork river. By the 1850s, tension in the middle of the settlers and Native Americans was increasing. In 1853, Daniel H. Wells, the head of the Nauvoo Legion (the Utah Territorial Militia at the time), instructed settlers to have an effect on into specific forts. At a meeting upon July 23, 1853, at the schoolhouse in American Fork, Lorenzo Snow and Parley P. Pratt convinced the settlers to follow Wells’ directions and whatever move together into a central fort. A fort was built of 37 acres (150,000 m2) to which the settlers located. Only parts of the wall were built to eight feet high, and none were built to the original plan of twelve feet high.