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Mapleton is a city in Utah County, Utah, and part of the Provo-Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area, with a population of 11,365 at the 2020 census, up 42.4 percent from 7,979 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 2,946 households and 3,049 housing units in Mapleton, and the median age was 29.7 years.

The area was first settled in 1850 as Union Bench, an agricultural extension of Springville, and the city is named for the groves of maple trees found in the area.

Legal action between residents of Springville and what became Mapleton, largely over water rights, allowed Mapleton to chart its own course beginning in 1901, when the community incorporated as a town on September 3, 1901, and Mapleton became a city on April 1, 1948.

Mapleton is dominated by 10,193-foot Spanish Fork Peak to the southeast, which residents still call Maple Mountain, and 7,533-foot Ether Peak to the northeast, with Maple Canyon between them home to Whiting Campground in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

The city is bounded to the north by Hobble Creek and extends southward to the Ensign-Bickford plant in Spanish Fork, and the Mapleton Lateral Canal crosses the eastern side of the city.

No part of Mapleton touches Interstate 15, its main artery is U.S. Route 89, and the city uses Transferable Development Rights planning to preserve the foothills, with most minimum lot sizes ranging from one-third acre to 2 acres.

Mapleton's parks include Mapleton City Park, Ira Allen Park, Eagle Rock Park, North Park, and Harvest Park.

Mapleton is served by the Nebo School District, with Mapleton Junior High, Hobble Creek Elementary, Mapleton Elementary, and Maple Ridge Elementary in the city, and Maple Mountain High School in nearby Spanish Fork.

Mapleton's ZIP code is 84664.