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Mona is a city in Juab County, Utah, and the 2020 census counted 1,750 residents in 480 households.

The city was settled in 1852 and was first called Clover Creek for the wild clover along the creek, then Willow Creek and Starr, before taking its present name for the Isle of Man.

Mona was incorporated in 1924 and became a city under Utah law on April 1, 2001.

A Young Living farm raises 200 acres of lavender on the north side of town, and Mona is known for its annual Lavender Festival.

Traveling singer Burl Ives was once jailed in Mona in the early 1930s for singing 'Foggy Foggy Dew,' which local authorities considered bawdy.

Mona sits about halfway between Santaquin and Nephi along Interstate 15, with access from Exit 233.

Part of the Mona Reservoir lies in the northwest corner of the city, an impoundment on Currant Creek that flows north to Utah Lake.

Mount Nebo, the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range, rises about 5 miles east of Mona to 11,928 feet.

Mona's population more than doubled between 2000 and 2020, growing from 850 to 1,750 residents.

Mona's median age was 31.2 years in 2020, and 35.8 percent of its residents were under the age of 18.