Short Creek community

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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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Predicate Object
instanceOf fundamentalist Mormon community
religious settlement
abbreviation FLDS Church
associatedWith Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
associatedWithPerson Warren Jeffs
borderedBy Arizona
Utah
country United States
culturalCharacteristic relativeIsolationFromWiderSociety
strongReligiousConformity
demographics predominantlyFLDSMembers
dressCode conservativePrairieStyleClothingForWomen
modestConservativeClothingForMen
economy locallyBasedBusinesses
education historicallyInfluencedByFLDSSchools
familyNorms highBirthRates
governance influencedByFLDSChurchLeaders
hasAlternativeName Short Creek
Short Creek polygamist community
linked to: FLDS Church
hasHistoricalEvent Short Creek raid
hasPart Colorado City, Arizona
Hildale, Utah
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
Mohave County, Arizona
United States
Washington County, Utah
marriagePractice arrangedPluralMarriages
municipalStatus includesIncorporatedTowns
propertyControl historicallyLinkedToUnitedEffortPlanTrust
religiousLeadership prophet-centeredAuthorityStructure
religiousMinorityStatus non-mainstreamLatterDaySaintMovement
religiousPractice communalReligiousGatherings
religiousTradition Mormon fundamentalism
separatedFrom mainstreamChurchOfJesusChristOfLatter-daySaints
Short Creek raid involvedArizonaStateAuthorities
occurredIn1953
targetedPolygamistFamilies
socialStructure largeInterrelatedFamilies
subjectOf legalInvestigationsIntoFLDSLeadership
mediaCoverageOnPolygamy
timeZone MountainTime
urbanType ruralCommunity
Warren Jeffs servedAsFLDSProphetAndLeader

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Rulon Jeffs associatedWith Short Creek community
Leroy S. Johnson placeOfActivity Short Creek community
Hildale, Utah partOf Short Creek Community
linked to: Short Creek community
President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints hasCentralLocation Short Creek community region
linked to: Short Creek community
Leroy S. Johnson basedIn Short Creek community
subject linked to: Uncle Roy