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Pleasant Grove, originally named Battle Creek, is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States known as “Utah’s City of Trees”. It is allocation of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 33,509 at the 2010 Census.

On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth, Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the Place now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city. A small community was traditional September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned. Of note, Bro William Fletcher and Sis Anne Hawley Reynolds in 1852 brought Ellis Reynolds Shipp to live, which Shipp became the legendary MD, Obstetrician, and Pediatrician, through the pubescent women’s midwife training program of Dr. Richards and Eliza Snow, beginning her training in youthful women’s MIA in Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Grove was officially incorporated as a town January 18, 1855, by which grow old the agreement had grown to 623 people.

The native name of the city was Battle Creek. It was named for a fight which took place there in 1849 in the company of Mormon settlers and a small band of Ute Indians, wherein everything the male Utes were massacred because Brigham Young believed they had stolen some of his horses (which were found back the attack on the Utes occurred). The settlers difficult decided they needed a more uplifting name and began calling their town Pleasant Grove after a grove of cottonwood trees located with Battle Creek and Grove Creek, near the current-day intersection of Locust Avenue and Battle Creek Drive. A monument later a plaque describing this battle is located at Kiwanis Park, at the mouth of Battle Creek Canyon.