Lehi

Mormon pioneers settled the area in the fall of 1850 at Dry Creek, in the northernmost part of Utah Valley. The settlement was renamed Evansville in 1851, after David Evans, a local bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Other names used in its early years include Sulphur Springs and Snow's Springs.

The Territorial Legislature approved the name Lehi, taken from a prophet in the Book of Mormon. Lehi was incorporated by legislative act on February 5, 1852. It was the sixth city incorporated in Utah.

Lehi stayed small for more than a century. The census counted 1,907 people in 1890 and 8,475 in 1990. By 2000 the figure was 19,028, and it reached 47,407 in 2010 and 75,907 in 2020.

Over those years the local economy moved from farming toward technology. Lehi is part of the technology region known as Silicon Slopes, and growth in that sector accounts for much of the city's recent population gain.

Downtown Lehi is the Lehi Main Street Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Lehi Roller Mills was founded in 1906 by a farmers' co-op. George G. Robinson bought it in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and it appears in the 1984 film Footloose. Its silos carry turkey and peacock paintings from about 1930 by Stan Russon.

Lehi's economy is now built around technology. A memory chip plant has operated in the city, and software, internet and data companies have placed offices and headquarters here as part of Silicon Slopes.

Lehi's first hospital opened in June 2015. The city runs its own electric utility, Lehi Power, and its own fiber internet service, Lehi Fiber.

Interstate 15 runs through Lehi with five exits: American Fork Main Street (SR-145), Lehi Main Street (SR-73), 2100 North (SR-194), Triumph Boulevard and Timpanogos Highway (SR-92).

FrontRunner commuter rail serves the city. The Lehi station opened on December 12, 2012. The Utah Transit Authority also runs bus service in Lehi.

Public schools belong to the Alpine School District. The city has two high schools, Lehi High and Skyridge High, along with junior high or middle schools and elementary schools. Mountainland Technical College has a public Lehi campus that teaches automotive, culinary arts, healthcare and information technology.

The city has a library, the Legacy Center, an outdoor pool, a senior center and the Rippy Literacy Center. Other city services include water, garbage and recycling, cemetery, passports and pavilion rentals. City offices are at 131 N 100 E.