Global Information Lookup Global Information

Short Creek Community information


Short Creek Community
Community
Coordinates: 36°59′22″N 112°58′41″W / 36.98944°N 112.97806°W / 36.98944; -112.97806
Founded1913
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST)

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.

  1. ^ Zoellner, Tom (June 28, 1998), "Polygamy: Throughout its history, Colorado City has been home for those who believe in virtues of plural marriage", The Salt Lake Tribune, p. J1, Archive Article ID: 100F28A4D3D36BEC (NewsBank), archived from the original on May 5, 2000

and 19 Related for: Short Creek Community information

Request time (Page generated in 0.9207 seconds.)

Short Creek Community

Last Update:

The Short Creek Community (now Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah), founded in 1913, began as a small ranching town in the Arizona Strip. In the...

Word Count : 754

Short Creek raid

Last Update:

public safety and soldiers from the Arizona National Guard entered Short Creek. The community, which was composed of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists...

Word Count : 1457

Short Creek

Last Update:

Short Creek may mean: Short Creek (Iowa River), a stream in Iowa Short Creek (Bean Lake), a stream in Missouri Short Creek (Tennessee River), a stream...

Word Count : 138

Joseph Smith Jessop

Last Update:

Barlow, co-founder of Short Creek, Arizona (later Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah), home to the polygynous Short Creek Community. Joseph Smith Jessop...

Word Count : 1100

Charles Zitting

Last Update:

1894 – July 14, 1954) was a Mormon fundamentalist leader of the community in Short Creek, Arizona. Zitting's ancestors came to the United States from Sweden...

Word Count : 381

Willow Creek Community Church

Last Update:

Willow Creek Community Church is an Evangelical non-denominational multi-site megachurch based in the northwestern Chicago suburb of South Barrington...

Word Count : 2242

List of Mormon fundamentalist leaders

Last Update:

The Council of Friends was centered in Salt Lake City and the Short Creek Community, later called Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. The Council...

Word Count : 2189

Community of Christ

Last Update:

Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is an American-based international...

Word Count : 7553

Child Bride of Short Creek

Last Update:

1953 Short Creek raid that had occurred in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community of...

Word Count : 803

Donia Jessop

Last Update:

not endorsed by the FLDS Church. Jessop was born in 1970 in the Short Creek Community, which is the area made up of the municipalities of Hildale, Utah...

Word Count : 911

Joseph White Musser

Last Update:

leader of the Short Creek community during the Short Creek raid. Upon Musser's death on March 29, 1954, the fundamentalists in Short Creek refused to accept...

Word Count : 1025

List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement

Last Update:

Independence, Missouri Schoolhouse of the Short Creek Community in Colorado City, Arizona (site of the 1953 Short Creek raid). Abandoned meetinghouse of the...

Word Count : 2089

Roy Jeffs

Last Update:

and Patricia), and 50 half siblings. He and his family moved to Short Creek Community in 1998. Although forbidden from having access to television or...

Word Count : 1030

Portland Community College

Last Update:

October 23, 2015. Navas, Melissa (March 26, 2010). "Portland Community College's Willow Creek Center earns platinum LEED certification". The Oregonian. Retrieved...

Word Count : 942

President of the Church

Last Update:

the earliest years of its existence, the Mormon fundamentalist Short Creek Community regarded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)...

Word Count : 2102

Prisoner of the Prophet

Last Update:

the Short Creek Community (Hilldale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona), following Jeff's incarceration, and the exodus of the church from the community. Prisoner...

Word Count : 268

Fumarase deficiency

Last Update:

of which were formerly known as "Short Creek" (or the Short Creek Community). The two towns combine to form a community of 10,000 members of the Fundamentalist...

Word Count : 962

Dawson Creek

Last Update:

of 12,978 in 2016. Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after George Mercer...

Word Count : 5015

Muscogee language

Last Update:

and Tulsa Muscogee Communities of the Muscogee Nation offer Muscogee Creek language classes. In 2013, the Sapulpa Creek Community Center graduated a class...

Word Count : 3394

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net