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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. In April 2014, the State of Texas took physical and legal possession of the property.
In November 2003, church member David Allred purchased for YFZ Land LLC the 1,371-acre (555-hectare) Isaacs Ranch four miles (six kilometers) northeast of Eldorado, Texas, on Schleicher County Road 300 "as a hunting retreat". The property would be known within the sect as Yearning For Zion Ranch, or YFZ Ranch.
Academia Juárez, part of the Mormon community from Colonia Juárez.. The Mormon colonies in Mexico are settlements located near the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico which were established by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) beginning in 1885.
Eldorado was the nearest city to the Yearning for Zion Ranch (YFZ Ranch), the headquarters of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints headed by convicted sex offender felon Warren Jeffs. More than 400 children were removed from the compound in April 2008 by Texas Child Protective Services. [11]
FLDS Temple at the YFZ Ranch in Schleicher County Schleicher County Public Library in Eldorado. Schleicher County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,451. [1] Its county seat is Eldorado. [2] The county was created in 1887 and organized in 1901. [3]
Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip.The population was 2,478 at the 2020 census. [4] At least three Mormon fundamentalist sects are said to have been based there. [7]
Paramount Network. Get this: The first three seasons of Yellowstone were not filmed in Montana. According to Deseret News, about 75 percent of these scenes were filmed in the state of Utah.The ...
The Council of Friends membership desired a remote location where they could practice plural marriage, which had been publicly abandoned by the LDS Church in 1890. [ 3 ] On July 26, 1953, Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle sent troops into the settlement to stop polygamy in what became known as the Short Creek raid .