Fillmore

Fillmore, city, seat (1851) of Millard county, west-central Utah, U.S. It lies just west of the Pahvant Range (at an elevation of 5,061 feet [1,543 metres]), 95 miles (153 km) south-southwest of Provo. Settled in 1851, the city was named for U.S. President Millard Fillmore, who appointed Mormon leader Brigham Young as the first governor of Utah Territory. Young selected the area as the site for Utah’s first territorial capitol building. It was the official,...