The Mormon Colonies established in
MEXICO, CANADA, HAWAII & SAMOA
and the year of establishment

Extracted from LION of the LORDEssays on the Life and Service of Brigham Young
Edited by Susan Easton Black & Larry C. Porter
Deseret Book Company – Salt Lake City – 1995 -- Pages 180-208.

The Colonies

Milton R. Hunter broke ground with his list of Mormon settlements in the 1930’s, but his resources were limited, and his period covered only Brigham Young’ lifetime. Lynn Albert Rosenvall took the list up to 1900 in his thesis of 1972. This writer, while doing research for the Museum of Church History and Art, found more 19th century communities and others that were founded as Latter-day Saint colonies up to 1930. The inventory now stands as a total of 742 in the western United States, Canada, Mexico, and Polynesia. This figure may be incomplete, but nearly final.

Susan Easton Black
Larry C. Porter

Extracted and transcribed by
Richard Keller Preece
12 April 2007

The Mormon Colonies in MEXICO
and when they were established

TOWN STATE DATE

  • Colonia Juarez Chihuahua 1885
  • Colonia Diaz Chihuahua 1885
  • Cave Valley Chihuahua 1887
  • Colonia Pacheco Chihuahua 1887
  • Colonia Dublan Chihuahua 1889
  • Chuichupa Chihuahua 1894
  • Colonia Garcia Chihuahua 1894
  • Galeana Chihuahua 1895
  • Colonia Morelos Sonora 1900
  • Colonia San Jose Sonora 1905
  • The Mormon Colonies in CANADA
    and when they were established

    TOWN PROVINCE DATE

    The Mormon Colonies in POLYNESIA
    and when they were established

    LOCALITY DATE