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Springville is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States that is part of the Provo-Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 29,466 in 2010, according to the United States Census. Springville is a bedroom community for commuters who work in the Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City metropolitan areas. Other against cities augment Spanish Fork and Mapleton. Springville has the nickname of “Art City” or “Hobble Creek”.

Springville was first explored in 1776 by Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Franciscan padre. What became Springville lay along the wagon route called the Mormon Road that Mormon pioneers and 49ers traveled through southern Utah, northern Arizona, southern Nevada and Southern California. From 1855, each winter trains of freight wagons traveled upon this road across the deserts amid Los Angeles and Salt Lake City until the late 1860s subsequently the railroad arrived in Utah. Springville was settled in 1850 by eight swashbuckler families who crossed the plains to Salt Lake Valley from the East and were directed by Brigham Young to tie in 50 miles (80 km) further south.

Incorporated in February 1853, the pioneers called the city Hobble Creek because an early exploration team led by Oliver B. Huntington in February 1849 had a horse lose a pair of iron hobbles (restraints tied to the horse’s forelegs) while the team was camped neighboring the creek. As the town grew, the publicize was distorted to Springville, after the Fort Springville. Fort Springville was named after the many freshwater springs in the area, particularly close the fort. The original name was not no question lost, however, as the canyon stream (and associated canyons), a local elementary school, and city-owned golf course have retained the state Hobble Creek.