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The Short Creek Community (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 .
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]
The Four Corners region is the red circle in this map. The Four Corners states are highlighted in orange. Four Corners is a region of the Southwestern United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona, and northwestern corner of New Mexico.
The earliest school, when the city was founded in 1914 was across the border, funded by Mohave County, Arizona. [9] Various schools were built and used, by 1998, the city's elementary-age students attended the Phelps School in Hildale while many older students attended school in Colorado City Unified School District in Arizona. [23]
Short Creek was renamed Colorado City in 1960. In 1991, the Mormon fundamentalists at Colorado City formally established the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church). The members of the sect did not face any prosecutions for its polygamous behavior until the late 1990s, when isolated individuals began to be ...
An Australian company and its U.S. subsidiaries are analyzing the saline waters in a geologic formation shared by Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, an area called the Paradox Basin.
Centennial Park is located in northeastern Mohave County at (36.953806, -112.981325 It is bordered to the north by the town of Colorado City. Arizona State Route 389 passes through the CDP, leading east 28 miles (45 km) to Fredonia and northwest into Utah, where it becomes Utah Route 59, leading 26 miles (42 km) to Hurricane.
Residents of Littlefield, Arizona, and the surrounding northwestern corner of the state, near Interstate 15, must physically leave the state and reenter from Utah, Nevada, or California. Four primary unpaved roads enter the core of the strip: from Mesquite, Nevada; St. George, Utah; Colorado City, Arizona; and Fredonia, Arizona. All four are ...