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Vineyard is a city in Utah County, Utah, in the Provo-Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area, bordered on the east by Orem and on the west by about three miles of Utah Lake shoreline.

The community was named for grape vineyards near the original town site, and according to some town residents it first became a distinct place in 1899.

Vineyard was incorporated on May 11, 1989, and was certified as a city of the fifth class during the summer of 2016, having previously been classified as a town.

Vineyard's population grew from 139 at the 2010 census to 12,543 at the 2020 census, an increase of 8,923.7 percent that made it the fastest-growing city in Utah and one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation during that decade.

Vineyard's dramatic growth since about 2012 came from redevelopment of the former Geneva Steel site, which sits in Vineyard and had been idle since Geneva went out of business in 2002.

Starting in 2011, Utah Valley University purchased hundreds of acres in Vineyard to create a secondary campus a few miles west of its main facilities.

In 2020, 33.8 percent of Vineyard's population was under 18 years old and only 1.1 percent was over 65, reflecting the city's very young, newly built population.

Vineyard's motto is Stay Connected, and the city was awarded a Bronze level Bicycle Friendly Community award in 2020 by the League of American Bicyclists for its extensive trail system.

A FrontRunner commuter rail station in Vineyard completed construction in August 2022, and Utah Transit Authority bus routes also travel through the city.

Vineyard's public schools are Vineyard Elementary and Trailside Elementary, plus the charter schools Franklin Discovery Academy and Freedom Preparatory Academy.