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Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, and its population was 3,655 in the 2020 census.

Mount Pleasant was first settled in the spring of 1852 by Latter-day Saint colonists from Manti led by Madison D. Hambleton, in a settlement called the Hambleton Settlement, but during the Wakara War the settlers relocated to Spring City and then to Manti for protection, and a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned in 1859 to lay out the permanent town site.

Mount Pleasant was incorporated in 1868, a year after its first cooperative store was founded.

By 1880, Mount Pleasant was the county's largest city, with a population of 2,000, and more than 72 percent of its married adults were foreign-born, with five languages commonly spoken in the town for decades.

Under the direction of James Russell Ivie, settlers built a fort of adobe walls and log cabins with Pleasant Creek running through it, and in 1872 the final peace treaty with the Native Americans was signed in Bishop Seeley's house on Main Street, bringing an end to the Black Hawk War.

The Rio Grande Western Railway arrived in Mount Pleasant in 1890, and by 1900 the city had grown to nearly 3,000 people, the largest size reached by any city in Sanpete County to that time, earning it the nickname “Hub City.”

In the 2020 census, Mount Pleasant had 1,117 households and a median age of 32.2 years, and all of its residents lived in rural areas.

Mount Pleasant covers about 2.9 square miles at an elevation of 5,925 feet.

Mount Pleasant is in the North Sanpete School District, with an elementary school and North Sanpete High School, the district's only high school, and it is also home to Wasatch Academy, a private boarding school established in 1875.

Hub City Days and the Fourth of July Celebration include a parade down Main Street, a breakfast at the city park, a carnival, a rodeo, and fireworks, and Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Day is held on the last Saturday in March.