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Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. Mt. Pleasant is known for its 19th-century main street buildings, for being home to Wasatch Academy, and for instinctive the largest city in the northern half of the county. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,260.

After taking lumber out of Pleasant Creek Canyon in late 1851, a band of Mormon colonists from Manti led by Madison D. Hambleton returned in the spring of 1852 to verify the Hambleton Settlement close the gift site of Mt. Pleasant. During the Walkara (Walker) Indian War, the small group of settlers relocated to Spring Town (Spring City) and vanguard to Manti for protection. The old agreement was burned beside by local Native Americans, so considering a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned to the Place in 1859, a new, permanent townsite was laid out in its present location—one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City and twenty-two miles northeast of Manti.

Among the founding settlers were Mormon converts from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and the eastern United States. By 1880, at which epoch Mt. Pleasant was the county’s largest city, with a population of 2,000, more than 72 percent of its married adults were foreign born. This ethnic diversity had an important impact upon village life during the nineteenth and to the lead twentieth centuries. For decades, five languages were commonly spoken in town, creating unclear and sometimes amusing communication problems.