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Events

These pages belong to events in the history of Short Creek. Story text is free to read.

The Short Creek raid — 26 July 1953. Arizona officers entered the settlement at dawn. Speakers in the 1961 recordings still referred to it as “the raid of 1953.”

The United Effort Plan — the communal land trust formalized on 9 November 1942, the 1998 restatement after Jeffs v. Stubbs, and Utah court administration from 2005 to 2019.