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Ephraim is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, along U.S. Route 89, and the largest city in Sanpete County, with 5,611 residents counted in the 2020 census.

The first settlement at Ephraim was made in 1854, a post office has operated there since 1856, and the town was named for Ephraim of the Old Testament.

From its founding in 1854 until the end of the Black Hawk War in 1868, Ephraim functioned as Sanpete County's most important fort.

By 1860 Danes formed a bare majority of Ephraim's population, and by 1880 the town was about 90 percent Scandinavian.

Ephraim is the home of Snow College, founded November 5, 1888, as the Sanpete Stake Academy, with its first classes held on the top floor of the Ephraim Social Hall.

The academy was renamed Snow Academy in honor of Lorenzo Snow and Erastus Snow, early Latter-day Saint leaders who helped settle the Sanpete Valley, and it later became Snow College, one of the oldest two-year state colleges in the Western United States.

Snow College's Ephraim campus covers 82 acres with 26 buildings, and the college also maintains a campus in Richfield.

To revive the town's Nordic heritage, Ephraim residents started a Scandinavian Festival in 1976, held on the weekend before Memorial Day with events centered on Ephraim Square.

The city covers about 3.6 square miles, all land, and uses ZIP code 84627.

Ephraim's population fell from 6,135 in 2010 to 5,611 in 2020, a decline of about 8.5 percent.