Springville is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, that is ration of the Provo–Orem metropolitan area. The population was 35,268 in 2020, according to the United States Census. Springville is a bedroom community for commuters who achievement in the Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City metropolitan areas. Other adjacent to cities add together 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 between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City until the late 1860s in imitation of the railroad arrived in Utah. During the year 1849, a charity of pioneers led by William Miller and James Mendenhall traveled to the Provo River area. Mendenhall and Miller explored a little further south and fell in love with what is now known as the Hobble Creek area. Springville was contracted in 1850 by eight investor families, led by Aaron Johnson, who crossed the plains to Salt Lake Valley from the East and were directed by Brigham Young to be of the same opinion 50 miles (80 km) further south.

Incorporated in February 1853, the pioneers called the city Hobble Creek because an ahead of time 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 next to the creek. As the town grew, the publicize was changed to Springville. 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 near the fort. The indigenous name was not extremely lost, however, as the canyon stream (and allied canyons), a local elementary school, and city-owned golf course have retained the proclaim Hobble Creek.

Springville is known as “Art City” due to its mighty development of the arts. Springville is house to the Springville Museum of Art, Utah’s oldest museum for the visual Good arts (circa 1937). The museum, housed in a historic Spanish Colonial Revival-style building, showcases collections of many well-known artists, both local and national, including collections of Utah art, a major Soviet collection, early Americana, and the European Steed collection. It was dedicated by David O. McKay as a “sanctuary of beauty and a temple of meditation.” Springville is the birthplace of noted sculptor Cyrus Dallin. The main street is dotted in the same way as bronze statues, including several from local sculptors Gary Price and Jeff Decker.