Short Creek community

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fundamentalist Mormon community religious settlement

The Short Creek community is a fundamentalist Mormon settlement on the Arizona–Utah border known for its practice of plural marriage and dominance by leaders of the FLDS Church.

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Surface form Occurrences
Short Creek Community 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fundamentalist Mormon community ⓘ
religious settlement ⓘ
abbreviation FLDS Church NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithPerson Warren Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ
borderedBy Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ
Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalCharacteristic relativeIsolationFromWiderSociety ⓘ
strongReligiousConformity ⓘ
demographics predominantlyFLDSMembers ⓘ
dressCode conservativePrairieStyleClothingForWomen ⓘ
modestConservativeClothingForMen ⓘ
economy locallyBasedBusinesses ⓘ
education historicallyInfluencedByFLDSSchools ⓘ
familyNorms highBirthRates ⓘ
governance influencedByFLDSChurchLeaders ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Short Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ
Short Creek polygamist community NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasHistoricalEvent Short Creek raid NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart Colorado City, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hildale, Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ
housingPattern largeMulti-familyHomes ⓘ
knownFor dominance by FLDS Church leadership ⓘ
polygamy ⓘ
practice of plural marriage ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lawEnforcementIssues allegationsOfLocalPoliceBiasTowardFLDS ⓘ
legalIssues conflictsOverPolygamyLaws ⓘ
locatedIn Arizona–Utah border region NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mohave County, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States

Washington County, Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ
marriagePractice arrangedPluralMarriages ⓘ
municipalStatus includesIncorporatedTowns ⓘ
propertyControl historicallyLinkedToUnitedEffortPlanTrust ⓘ
religiousLeadership prophet-centeredAuthorityStructure ⓘ
religiousMinorityStatus non-mainstreamLatterDaySaintMovement ⓘ
religiousPractice communalReligiousGatherings ⓘ
religiousTradition Mormon fundamentalism ⓘ
separatedFrom mainstreamChurchOfJesusChristOfLatter-daySaints NERFINISHED ⓘ
Short Creek raid involvedArizonaStateAuthorities ⓘ
occurredIn1953 ⓘ
targetedPolygamistFamilies ⓘ
socialStructure largeInterrelatedFamilies ⓘ
subjectOf legalInvestigationsIntoFLDSLeadership ⓘ
mediaCoverageOnPolygamy ⓘ
timeZone MountainTime ⓘ
urbanType ruralCommunity ⓘ
Warren Jeffs servedAsFLDSProphetAndLeader ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rulon Jeffs → associatedWith → Short Creek community ⓘ
Leroy S. Johnson → placeOfActivity → Short Creek community ⓘ
Hildale, Utah → partOf → Short Creek community ⓘ
this entity surface form: Short Creek Community