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Provo| City in north-central Utah, USA, on the Provo River, 60 km/38 mi southeast of Salt Lake City; population (2000) 105,200. It is a rail distribution point, and the commercial and industrial centre of a rich mining and irrigated agricultural area. Iron and steel goods are manufactured with material sourced from a nearby steelworks at Geneva. Products include processed-foods, electronics, computer-ware, bricks, and tiles. Silver, lead, copper, and gold are mined locally. It is the seat of Brigham Young University (1875). |
| Provo was settled in 1849 by Mormon missionaries and initially named Fort Utah; the city was renamed in 1850 after Etienne Provost, a French-Canadian trapper who had settled in the area in 1825. It grew rapidly after the arrival of the railroad in the 1870s. |
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