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Stakes of Zion, 1942

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This map shows the scant territory included within stakes in 1942 in the States circling Utah. Note that the stakes in Utah are not marked on this map; stakes in other areas, like those in California, are also not shown. Everything not shown as cross-hatched on this map was “the mission field.”

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  2. I never thought of the way stakes spread across the globe over time. Would be cool to see one of those global maps timelapsed to watch the stakes spread across the globe. Surely the data is out there to make something like that happen.

  4. That’s a great map! And a test of my tired eyes. I am curious, though, about the gap in the list of Idaho stakes at #6. What happened there??

    And I like Steve G’s suggestion. Get at it, programmers!

  5. I think the best part of this is how inconsequential Las Vegas was at that time. It looks to be part of the Moapa/Uvada Stake. It’s been a while but, as I recall, all you see of Moapa from the interstate is a truck stop and fireworks store. Las Vegas is a tad larger.

  6. Cool! I love maps. I could stare for hours.

    To a certain extent this could be a proxy for showing the areas the saints successfully colonized in those same six states. OK, Maybe not Denver.

  7. Also interesting is that New Mexico has a stake in the NW corner (in Navajo territory) but not near the (much larger today) cities of Albuquerque or Santa Fe.

    There’s an interesting comment in the book “Mapping Mormonism” that several of Utah’s school districts got their names and original boundaries from LDS stakes (Granite, Jordan, Alpine and Nebo iirc). I wonder if that’s true for any school districts outside Utah.

  8. Interesting that that stake near Las Vegas has a tendril extending into Utah, but nothing on the Arizona strip. Nothing but polygamists there anyways?

  9. Lee C., the stake in NW New Mexico was called the Young Stake because it was settled by Brigham Young Jr. The area covers Farmington, Kirtland (wonder where they got that name?), Aztec, Bloomfield in New Mexico and on up to Durango and Red Mesa in Colorado.

  11. The Moapa Valley is a bit more than the truck stop along I-15. If you get off the freeway and head south into the valley, you’ll run into a string of little Mormon towns (Logandale and Overton, and, if you can ride a time machine back to the days before Lake Mead drowned it, St. Thomas).

    The current Logandale Stake must be the successor to the Moapa Stake, since the church directory shows that it has existed since June 9, 1912. And it’s got 11 wards and a YSA branch. Nothing compared to the glitzy desert metropolis to the southwest, but a much higher density of Mormons.

  12. For those of you tearing out your eyes, Control + or Command + (on a Mac) will zoom on most any web browser.

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