Featured Businesses
Smithfield, UT
Smithfield is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 13,571 at the 2020 United States Census. Originally known as "Summit Creek" (due to its location on that creek), Smithfield was founded in 1857 by brothers Robert and John Thornley and their cousin Seth Langton, who were sent north from Salt Lake City by LDS Church President Brigham Young to found a settlement on Summit Creek. After a preliminary scouting, Robert returned with his new wife Annie Brighton. The first winter was spent in a wagon box. By the next summer, with more settlers arriving, a small fort was built on the edge of the creek, one cabin of which remains. As the settlement grew, John Glover Smith was named as bishop to lead the church congregation, and the town took his name. In December 1902, the sizable Smithfield Tabernacle was completed. By 1917 the town had planted trees on both sides of its Main Street and had acquired a Carnegie library and a Rotary club. Dependent for many years on dairying, a Del Monte canning factory, and the sugar beet industry, the town is now essentially a bedroom community for Logan and its Utah State University.
Smithfield, Utah has been known as “A City On A Hill” since the early 1850’s. It is nestled next to the Wasatch Mountains of Cache Valley in Northern Utah which from the early 1800’s was used as a cache site for fur traders. The settlement was located on an alluvial plane near a large mountain canyon. Summit Creek flowed year around down from the canyon, near the center of the top of the plane, gradually spreading over the alluvial rise. American Indians had known and used the immediate area for generations. The early pioneers recognized that with the rich soil and the ability to irrigate with water running north, west, or south, that the area could be made to flourish. The first garden plants were planted late in 1859 and remnants of the vegetables were harvested in the early summer of 1860. The city of Smithfield was formally settled in 1859 and in 1860 settlers moved in from England, Ireland, Scotland, Whales, Scandinavia, and Canada. Most were Mormon Pioneers.
