Provo Real Estate
Provo, Utah is a growing city that experienced a 21.1 percent population increase in the 1990s. Today it’s the home to 105,166 people and is rated as one of the top five percent safest of 208 American cities with a population of 100,000 to 500,000.
The city is named for French-Canadian explorer, Etienne Provost, who explored the area in 1825. Reports of his travels inspired Mormon settlers to move to the area and officially establish Provo as a city in 1849.
Fast Facts
- Provo is 40.24 degrees north of the equator.
- According to Forbes Magazine, the city was 2004’s sixth best place to live in the United States.
- The city library has 178,701 books.
- Provo is 4,549 feet above sea level.
- Brett Keisel, 2005 NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was born in Provo.
- Average summer temperature is 75°F in the summer and 30°F in the winter.
- Provo is sunny more than 60 percent of the time from mid-February to the beginning of November.
- Provo takes up 39.6 square miles.
- Average annual precipitation is 20.13 inches of rain and 60.40 inches of snow each year.