Spring City is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, United States, situated at in the Sanpete Valley of central Utah. The population was 949 at the 2020 census. Its town center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Spring City Historic District, recognized as a well-preserved example of a Latter-day Saint pioneer settlement with a concentration of 19th-century oolitic limestone architecture. The city has attracted professional artists since the 1970s and is home to Spring City Arts, a nonprofit organization that operates a gallery in a restored early-20th-century automobile showroom on Main Street.
History
thumb|left|upright|Spring City meetinghouse of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, February 2009]]
In 1850, LDS Church president Brigham Young and his counselor Heber C. Kimball toured the Sanpete Valley and identified sites for future settlements; church leaders envisioned a line of communities stretching the length of the valley to ensure effective control of the region. Spring City was first known as "Allred Settlement". The original settlers in 1852 were under the leadership of James Allred, a North Carolina-born early convert who had been advised by Young to "select a place for settlement where he could locate with his numerous posterity and kindred." The village was reestablished as "Springtown" in 1859 by William Black, George Black and Joseph S. Black. Christen G. Larsen was made bishop of a new LDS ward in 1860.
Beginning in 1853, the Allred family and other church leaders encouraged Danish immigrants to settle in Sanpete County; by the mid-1860s locals referred to the north side of town as "Little Copenhagen" or "Little Denmark". The town was incorporated in 1870; the arrival of the railroad in 1890 made exporting agricultural products and importing goods more accessible.