American Fork is a city in north-central Utah County, Utah, United States, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range, north from Utah Lake. This city is thirty-two miles southeast of Salt Lake City. It is allocation of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 33,337 in 2020. The city has grown brusquely since the 1970s.

The area around Utah Lake was used as a seasonal hunting and fishing pitch by the Ute Indians. American Fork was decided 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 in the region of 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, the demonstration between 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 change 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 all move together into a central fort. A fort was built of 37 acres (150,000 m) to which the settlers located. Only parts of the wall were built to eight feet high, and none were built to the native plan of twelve feet high.

Settlers misused the say from Lake City to American Fork in 1860. It was renamed after the American Fork, which runs through the city, to avoid confusion in imitation of Salt Lake City. Most residents were farmers and merchants during its at the forefront history. By the 1860s, American Fork had conventional a public school, making it the first community in the territory of Utah to give public education to its citizens. In the 1870s, American Fork served as a rail access dwindling for mining goings-on in American Fork Canyon. American Fork had “a literal social feud” with the town of Lehi due to the Utah Sugar Company choosing Lehi as the factory building site in 1890 instead of American Fork. There were several mercantile businesses in American Fork, such as the American Fork Co-operative Association and Chipman Mercantile. For several decades in the 1900s, raising chickens (and eggs) was an important industry in the city. In 1892, Joseph Forbes organized the schools in American Fork, and the Forbes school is named after him.