Its Register listings are the Charles Crawforth Farmstead and the Spring City School. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1917 on, and the census since 1860.
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1870.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Spring City’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Spring City is more historic than 82% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Spring City’s overall grade.
Utah towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Utah town has 3.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Spring City’s 47.3 sits above most of its state (85% of Utah towns have fewer) while its 5 historic buildings outnumber those of 70% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B to A. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±11.1 points). Two sources give 1852.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Spring City’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The Sanpete Valley was inhabited by the San Pitch band of the Ute people. The Sanpitch Utes used the area around present-day Spring City for hunting and fishing before Latter-day Saint settlement.
Latter-day Saint settlers led by James Allred established a community along Canal Creek in 1852. Initially known as the Allred Settlement, it was abandoned during the 1850s amid conflict with Ute people and shortages of food. Settlers returned in 1859, and the community became known as Springtown and later Spring City.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
In 1852, according to Wikidata. Spring City’s post office opened in 1870, and the census of 1860 counted 243 people here.
How does Spring City rank for history?
Spring City is more historic than 82% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Spring City?
Two places: the Charles Crawforth Farmstead (listed 1980) and the Spring City School (1978).
How old are the homes in Spring City?
48% of Spring City’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.1 points), against a typical 2.8% for an Utah town; the median home was built in 1963.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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