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Short Creek Community. / 36.98944°N 112.97806°W / 36.98944; -112.97806. The Short Creek Community (now Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah ), founded in 1913, began as a small ranching town in the Arizona Strip. [ 1] In the 1930s it was settled by Mormon fundamentalists .
YFZ Ranch. Coordinates: 30.9215°N 100.5348°W. The FLDS temple in the YFZ Ranch. The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [ 1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States.
The Short Creek raid was an Arizona Department of Public Safety and Arizona National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists that took place on the morning of July 26, 1953, at Short Creek, Arizona. The Short Creek raid was the "largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history". [ 1] Law enforcement arrested polygamist men and removed ...
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [ 8]
Colorado City is located in northeastern Mohave County at 36°59′25″N 112°58′33″W (36.99026, −112.97577) Its northern border is the Arizona – Utah state line, with the town of Hildale, Utah, to the north. Arizona State Route 389 passes through the center of town, leading east 31 miles (50 km) to Fredonia.
138 [ 2 ] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Texas. Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 1.13% in 2007 and 1.21% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey in both years ...
The LDS church, with 380,000 members in Texas, or 1.2 percent of the state population, has temples in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Lubbock. ... According to photos and county property records ...
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah. At the time of the planning of the exodus in ...