Teleflex Defense
Systems is currently Spanish Fork's largest private employer with over
200 employees. Seven other businesses employ one hundred or more workers:
Longview Fibre Company, Natures Sunshine Products, Trojan Corporation,
Valley Asphalt, Inc., Shopko, K Mart, and Mountain Country Foods.
Although Spanish
Fork is predominantly Mormon, the 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 three elementary schools, one intermediate, and one
high school. An Icelandic Lutheran Church was also built on the east
bench of Spanish Fork and served a congregation for many years. There
is also the Faith Baptist Church, as well as twenty-six LDS wards in
four stakes. The population of Spanish Fork was 11,272 in 1990, well over a one hundred percent increase from the
5,230 residents in 1950.
See:
Elisha Warner, The History of Spanish Fork (1930).
Doris
F. Salmon