6 thoughts on ““Zion Is Growing”: Stakes as of March 1963”

1. A lot of maps of “number of X in the United States” end up just looking like population density maps, which in turn look like maps of water availability — you can look at them and say “yup, it’s arid out here, west of the 100th meridian.” It’s kind of delightful how thoroughly this map reverses that expectation.

2. I love the implied excitement of the growth in the table at the top of the chart showing the years it took to get to 50 stakes, then 100, then 150 …

   I would be interested in knowing where the 50 stakes off the map are. Hawaii? England?

3. On Mike’s theme I wonder if a conference talk was ever given, “We are an arid people.” And speaking of arid, I note my birth stake in southeastern Oregon at Nyssa, established 1950. The much earlier one in blue appears to be the Union Stake in the Grande Ronde Valley; La Grande, Oregon being the principal city although there is a town named “Union.” Why there? Sugar beets.

4. Hmmm. I think Richard Cowan (if its the same person) was one of my professors at BYU. He wrote a book called “The Church in the Twentieth Century.”

   What I find interesting, given that this is a map, is that he is blind.

   I’m sure he did contribute to this map — I remember being quite impressed at his abilities. I guess that this is just an excuse to give a shout out to a very capable man.

5. A welcome shout out, too. He is amazing.

6. I had a blind professor in college too. It was a tough class because we had to explain things clearly when answering his questions. No diagrams allowed.

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