Elberta is a census-designated place (CDP) in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 180 at the 2020 census.
History
It was founded as Mt. Nebo. After the water failed in 1901, most of the early settlers moved away. It was purchased by Matthew B. Whitney, a native of New York, on November 7, 1907, and he renamed it "Elberta" after the peach cultivar.
Geography
Elberta is located near the center of Goshen Valley along U.S. Route 6, three miles west of Goshen.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.20%, is water.
Demographics
thumb|left|An abandoned [[Sinclair Oil Corporation|Sinclair station in Elberta at the junction of US-6 & SR-68.]]
As of the census
thumb|right|Products produced from the church's dairy milk
The church's early welfare farms were owned by local units, called stakes, with the East Jordan & Butler stakes operating a welfare farm in the Elberta area. In the late 1970s, the church, in coordination with several of its stakes, developed south of Elberta into a large-scale agricultural operation. These operations included the Elberta Multi-Stake Welfare Farm, which produced irrigated crops such as hay, grain, and corn. The Murray East Cottonwood Stakes Dairy was relocated from Murray to the new operation, opening in 1979. Today, the Brigham Creek Dairy (formerly known as the Elberta Dairy) is run by the church's Elberta Valley Ag company. Milk from the dairy is sent for processing to the Deseret Dairy Plant on Welfare Square in Salt Lake City and to BYU Creamery in Provo. The operation also includes a feedlot, which raises livestock to supply meat to the Deseret Meat packing plant in Spanish Fork.
In 2011, the church's LDS Motion Picture Studios opened its south campus on farm property, where it created a set replicating biblical Jerusalem. The set was used for the church's Bible Videos series and was also used as a filming location for The Chosen series.
Transportation
Elberta is centered around the junction of what is now U.S. Route 6 (US-6) and Utah State Route 68 (SR-68). US-6 runs east-west through the south central part of the community, while SR-68 runs north from US-6 through the center of the community (and continues north through Utah and Salt Lake counties and into southern Davis County).
See also
- List of census-designated places in Utah