St. Thomas, Nevada

[2] The LDS Church members moved to Utah, where many of them founded new towns in Long Valley (present day Glendale, Orderville, and Mount Carmel).

The construction of Hoover Dam and the resulting rise in the waters of the Colorado River forced the abandonment of the town, with the last resident, Hugh Lord, leaving June 11, 1938.

The cemetery was relocated to Overton, Nevada where there is a St. Thomas interpretive center with a staff archaeologist doing on-going research into the history and settlement of the Muddy River.

Lords of St. Thomas (GWP, 2018), a novel by Jackson Ellis, tells the story of the last family to vacate the flooded town in 1938 following construction of the Boulder Dam.

[6] The novel The Desert Between Us, (University of Nevada Press, 2020) by Phyllis Barber tells the story of early LDS pioneers, polygamy, the U.S. government's decision to open a road to California, and camels.