Pleasant Grove, originally named Battle Creek, is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, known as “Utah’s City of Trees”. It is allowance of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 37,726 at the 2020 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 little community was time-honored 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, William Fletcher and Anne Hawley Reynolds in 1852 brought Ellis Reynolds Shipp to live, which Shipp became the legendary MD, Obstetrician, and Pediatrician, through the juvenile women’s midwife training program of Dr. Richards and Eliza Snow, beginning her training in pubescent women’s MIA in Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Grove was officially incorporated as a town January 18, 1855, by which times the concurrence had grown to 623 people.

The native name of the city was Battle Creek. It was named for a massacre which took place there in 1849 amid Mormon settlers and a little band of Ute Indians, wherein all the male Utes were massacred past Brigham Young believed the natives had stolen some of his horses (which were found since the attack upon the Utes occurred).^{[better source needed]} The settlers difficult decided they needed a more uplifting pronounce and began calling their town Pleasant Grove after a grove of cottonwood trees located in the middle of Battle Creek and Grove Creek, near the current-day intersection of Locust Avenue and Battle Creek Drive. A monument when a plaque describing this fight is located at Kiwanis Park, at the mouth of Battle Creek Canyon.

During the Walker Indian War in the 1850s, citizens built a fort afterward walls two or three feet thick and six feet high that occupied an Place the size of sixteen city blocks. The settlers in the area at the get older built homes inside the fort. While the fort no longer stands, memorial cornerstones were erected by local historians. The northeast monument was erected close the intersection of 100 North and 300 East streets. The northwest monument was erected four blocks west of that dwindling at 100 West Street and the southeast monument erected four blocks south at 300 South Street. The southwest monument would have been located near 300 South 100 West, the area is now occupied by a large parking lot and retail store.