Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 2,478, down from 4,821 in 2010. At least three Mormon fundamentalist sects are said to have been based there. A majority of residents and many local officials associate the most prominent of these sects, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose corporation furthermore owned much of the house within and more or less the town until let pass intervention in the 2000s.

Colorado City, formerly known as “Short Creek” (or the Short Creek Community), was founded in 1913 by members of the Council of Friends, a breakaway intervention from the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church). The Council of Friends relationship desired a unapproachable location where they could practice plural marriage, which had been publicly unaccompanied by the LDS Church in 1890. On July 26, 1953, Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle sent troops into the unity to End polygamy in what became known as the Short Creek raid. The two-year legal battle that followed became a public relations industrial accident that damaged Pyle’s political career and set a hands-off sky toward the town in Arizona for the bordering 50 years.

After the death of Joseph W. Musser, the community split into two groups: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stayed in Short Creek, while the Apostolic United Brethren relocated to Bluffdale, Utah. The FLDS tainted the declare of the community to Colorado City (on the Arizona side of the border) and Hildale (on the Utah side) to eliminate any ties to the Short Creek raids.

In January 2004, local FLDS fundamentalist leader Warren Jeffs expelled a work of 20 men, including the mayor, and gave their wives and kids to additional men. Jeffs, now a convicted sexual predator, stated he was acting on the orders of God, while the men expelled claimed they were penalized for disagreeing like Jeffs. Observers stated^{[by whom?]} that this was the most gruff split to date within the community other than the split in the midst of Colorado City and Centennial Park. According to the Utah attorney general’s office, this was not the first mature Jeffs was accused of expelling men from the community; as many as 400 young person men are estimated to have been expelled by Jeffs from 2001 to 2006. Most were removed for failing to follow Jeffs’ rules, or for dating women without his permission. Many of these expelled men and boys were entirely naïve and sheltered, and often wound stirring homeless in within reach towns such as Hurricane and St. George, Utah. Jeffs was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list and eventually arrested on August 28, 2006.