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Facts about the city

Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town was 4,821. At least three Mormon fundamentalist sects are said to have been based there.

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History

On July 26, 1953, Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle sent troops into the settlement to stop polygamy in what became known as the Short Creek raid. The FLDS membership desired a remote location where they could practice plural marriage, which had been 1890 Manifesto abandoned by the LDS Church in 1890. These expelled men and boys, many very naïve and sheltered, often wound up homeless and using drugs in nearby towns such as Hurricane, Utah. Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona County, Arizona, United States and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. In 2007 the state authorities dismantled church ownership of Colorado City lands.