1839Infrastructure
He acknowledged naming the town after Payson, Illinois, a small town in Adams County near Quincy where kind citizens had taken in the Young family after they were driven from Mi...
1850Military
On Sunday, October 20, 1850, Pace with his family and the families of John Courtland Searle and Andrew Jackson Stewart, totaling 16 settlers in all, arrived at their destination...
1851Civil Rights
Five months later, on the morning of March 23, 1851, Brigham Young, having lost confidence in the leadership of James Pace, released him from his calling and reorganized the com...
1853Government
In January 1853, Territorial Governor Brigham Young submitted a bill to the Second Utah Territorial Legislature to incorporate Payson as a city.
1854Civil Rights
On March 6, 1854, the LDS Church organized the Payson Ward as part of the Utah Stake with C.
1860Government
He would serve as Mayor for 2 additional two-year terms and as an alderman until 1860.
1872History
The Payson Tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff in 1872.
1873Government
In 1873 the Payson independent school District established a high school, the first such institution in Utah south of Salt Lake City.
1876Government
It closed in 1876 after Brigham Young Academy opened in Provo, and a Presbyterian mission school offering education through grade 12 was established under Rev.
1883Architecture
An opera house was built in Payson in 1883.
1897History
In 1897, the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus, the only known vector of the beet curly top virus (BCTV), invaded Utah County.
1912Architecture
When the Strawberry Valley Reclamation Project was completed in 1912, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company decided to place a sugar beet processing factory in the area.
1913Architecture
The plant was completed in October 1913.
1915Economy
By 1915, the biggest year for the factory, 5,014 acres (20.29 km2) were planted, yielding 36,915 tons of sugar beets, which were processed into 7,722 tons of sugar.
1924History
In 1924, beet growers all over Utah County experienced a complete crop failure.
1929Government
By 1929, Payson had established itself as a prominent agricultural district and an outstanding producer of onions.
1940Military
The factory was dismantled and demolished in 1940, leaving only the sugar warehouse.
1979History
In 1979, this property located at 10460 South 4400 West in Payson became the present IFA fertilizer storage, blending, packaging and distribution facility.
1984Education
Most of the 1984 film Footloose was filmed in and around Payson, in settings such as Payson High School and Sudsie's, a local car wash.
1985Military
The town was also one of the locations for the 1985 thriller Warning Sign.
1990History
Payson's population has doubled in 1990–2010, when the population was 8,700.
2000History
=== 2000 census ===
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,716 people, 3,654 households, and 3,058 families residing in the city.
2008Architecture
Construction was completed on it the summer of 2008.
2010Architecture
On January 25, 2010, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that a temple was to be built in Payson, the Payson Utah Temple.
2015Architecture
With construction completed before dedication on June 7, 2015, the Temple is the 15th in Utah and the 146th in the world.