Editing Spanish Fork, Utah (section)

==Economy==
{{Update span|text=Mountain Country Foods is currently Spanish Fork's largest private employer with 350 employees. Eight other businesses employ one hundred or more workers: SAPA, Klune Industries, Longview Fibre, Nature's Sunshine, Rocky Mountain Composites, J.C. Penney, Western Wats, and Provo Craft.|date=April 2019}}<ref name="SFCED">{{cite web|url=http://www.spanishfork.org/dept/econdev/majorEmployers.php|title=Spanish Fork City Economic Development|date=n.d.|publisher=Spanish Fork, Utah|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201172246/http://www.spanishfork.org/dept/econdev/majorEmployers.php}}</ref>

Spanish Fork has a predominantly [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS]] population. There are seventy-four [[Ward (LDS Church)|LDS wards]] in nine [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)#The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|stakes]] in the southern [[Utah Valley]] and a temple, the [[Payson Utah Temple]], which opened in June 2015. The majority of residents are [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] just like all of Utah County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/payson-utah-temple/|title=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church Temples|date=n.d.|publisher=Church of Jesus Christ Temples}}</ref>

There are other churches in town: the [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian Church]] established a church and mission day school in 1882. The school functioned until the state school system was inaugurated in the early part of the twentieth century. Today there are nine public elementary schools, two intermediate, and two high schools of the [[Nebo School District]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nebo.edu/ |title=Nebo School District |publisher=Nebo.edu |date= |access-date=2022-03-20}}</ref>

A [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church, established by immigrants from [[Iceland]], was built on the east bench of Spanish Fork.<ref name=powell>{{cite book|last=Powell|first=Allan Kent|date=1994|title=Utah History Encyclopedia|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|publisher=University of Utah Press|isbn=9780874804256|url={{Google books|g7d5AAAAMAAJ|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> There is also the Faith Baptist Church, a [[Baptists|Baptist]] congregation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usachurches.org/church/faith-baptist-church.htm|title = Faith Baptist Church|date=n.d.|publisher=USAChurch.org}}</ref>

A [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] church serves the Catholics of southern Utah Valley; many happen to be of [[Italians|Italian]] descent (see [[Utah Italians]]), [[Hispanic]]s, [[Filipino Americans]], and some [[Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholics]] from the [[Balkans]].<ref name=powell/>

ISKCON, the international society of Krishna Consciousness, have built a [[Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple (Spanish Fork)|temple]] in Spanish Fork, run by Caru Das, the temple priest. [[Indian Americans]] form a small but noticeable community in the Spanish Fork-[[Provo, Utah|Provo]] area (especially in the neighboring town of [[Springville, Utah|Springville]]).<ref>{{cite web|author=Tony Blair |url=http://iskcon.org/ |title=Home - ISKCON - The Hare Krishna Movement |publisher=ISKCON |date= |accessdate=2022-03-20}}</ref>

In Utah Valley's historical settlement by immigrants, Scandinavians (most notably [[Icelanders]]); as well as [[Swiss people]]; [[Spanish Americans]], [[Hispanic]]s or [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]]s; [[English Americans]], [[Irish Americans]] and [[Scottish Americans]] are prevalent ethnocultural groups in Spanish Fork, and the nearby towns of [[Salem, Utah|Salem]] and [[Payson, Utah|Payson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/utah/spanish-fork|title = Spanish Fork, Utah - City Information, Fast Facts, Schools, Colleges, and More}}</ref>