THE ARIZONA & NEW MEXICO COLONIES

The Mormon Colonies established in Arizona and New Mexico and the year of establishment

Extracted from

LION of the LORD – Essays on the Life and Service of Brigham Young
Edited by Susan Easton Black & Larry C. Porter
Deseret Book Company – Salt Lake City – 1995 -- Pages 180-208.

The Colonies

Milton R. Hunter broke ground with his list of Mormon settlements in the 1930’s, but his resources were limited, and his period covered only Brigham Young’ lifetime. Lynn Albert Rosenvall took the list up to 1900 in his thesis of 1972. This writer, while doing research for the Museum of Church History and Art, found more 19th century communities and others that were founded as Latter-day Saint colonies up to 1930. The inventory now stands as a total of 742 in the western United States, Canada, Mexico, and Polynesia. This figure may be incomplete , but nearly final.

Susan Easton Black
Larry C. Porter

Extracted and transcribed by
Richard Keller Preece
12 April 2007

The Mormon Colonies in ARIZONA                 See Arizona Map of Colonies
and when they were established

TOWN COUNTY DATE

TOWN COUNTY DATE

ORGANIZATION OF TERRITORIES, STATES, & COUNTIES

Territory Organized Admitted as State

County Organized Parent County

The Mormon Colonies in NEW MEXICO
and when they were established

TOWN COUNTY DATE

ORGANIZATION OF TERRITORIES, STATES, & COUNTIES

Territory Organized Admitted as State

Area names which formed the state: Mexican session, New Mexico Territory, Gadsden Purchase.

County Organized Parent County