By 1857, tensions had again escalated between Mormons and other Americans, largely as a result of accusations involving polygamy and the theocratic rule of the Utah territory by Brigham Young.

Media reports in 1969 and 1988 on foods popular among Mormons or in Utah make no mention of Jello, and a 1988 articles mentions Jello as being a Lutheran tradition.

At one time the US feared that the Muatche Utah were in alliance with the Mormons.

After Smith's death in 1844 the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory.

The center of Mormon cultural influence is in Utah, and North America has more Mormons than any other continent, though the majority of Mormons live outside the United States.

By 1857, tensions had again escalated between Mormons and other Americans, largely as a result of accusations involving polygamy and the theocratic rule of the Utah territory by Brigham Young.

In 1857 President James Buchanan sent an army to Utah, which Mormons interpreted as open aggression against them.

In the 1920s and 1930s Mormons began migrating out of Utah, a trend hurried by the Great Depression, as Mormons looked for work wherever they could find it.

The global distribution of Mormons resembles a contact diffusion model, radiating out from the organization's headquarters in Utah.

Isolation in Utah had allowed Mormons to create a culture of their own.

In 2010 Around 13 – 14 % of Mormons lived in Utah: the center of cultural influence for Mormonism.

Utah Mormons ( as well as Mormons living in the Intermountain West ) are on average more culturally and / or politically conservative than those living in some cosmopolitan centers elsewhere in the U. S. Utahns self-identifying as Mormon also attend church somewhat more on average than Mormons living in other states.

( Nonetheless, whether they live in Utah or elsewhere in the U. S., Mormons tend to be more culturally and / or politically conservative than members of other U. S. religious groups.

J. Gordon Melton, in his Encyclopedia of American Religions, subdivides the Mormons into Utah Mormons, Missouri Mormons, Polygamy-Practicing Mormons, and Other Mormons.

In this scheme, the Utah Mormon group includes the non-polygamous organizations descending from those Mormons who followed Brigham Young to what is now Utah.

For instance, in 2000 a jury in Provo, Utah, took only a few minutes to clear Larry Peterman, owner of a Movie Buffs video store, in Utah County, Utah, a region which had often boasted of being one of the most conservative areas in the US.

Emergency supplies, repairs and livestock were often provided by local residents in Oregon, California, and Utah for late travelers on the trail who were hurrying to beat the snow.

Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous city of the U. S. state of Utah.

These expelled men and boys, many very naïve and sheltered, often wound up homeless and using drugs in nearby towns such as Hurricane, Utah.

It is often said that the name of the town derives from its location at the center of Utah, because the name is navel spelled backwards.

Those families that settled the region often left comfortable surroundings of Northern Utah to settle what one original resident described as a desolate region without a green tree in sight.

Also, the Four Corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico is often considered to be the center, or heart, of the American Southwest.

The Ghost Dance was also investigated by many Mormons from Utah, for whom the concepts of the Native American prophet were familiar and often accepted.

Recent discoveries of burbot in the Green River at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah have concerned wildlife biologists who fear that the burbot could decimate the sport fish population in what is recognized as one of the world's top Brown Trout fisheries, because it often feeds on the eggs of other fish in the lake like Sockeye salmon.

Birds breeding in western Alaska winter along the Pacific coast from southern Alaska to California ; they often move inland – particularly to the rich feeding grounds in the Californian Central Valley – and some cross the Rocky Mountains again and winter as far east as Utah and south to Texas and northern Mexico.

Today, the Cornell Box is often used to show off renderers in a similar way as the Stanford Bunny, the Utah teapot, and Lenna: computer scientists often use the scene just for its visual properties without comparing it to test data from a physical model.

Wilson's Phalaropes are unusually halophilic ( salt-loving ) and feed in great numbers when on migration on saline lakes such as Mono Lake in California and the Great Salt Lake of Utah, often with Red-necked Phalaropes.

They also wished to distinguish themselves from the church in Utah, members of whom are often referred to by Hedrickites as " Utah Mormons " or " Brighamites ", because they followed Brigham Young to Utah Territory in 1847.

Tulip Festivals are held in several cities around the world, including a number in North America — most often cities with Dutch heritage — such as Albany ( New York ); Ottawa ( Ontario ); Gatineau ( Quebec ); Montreal ( Quebec ); Holland ( Michigan ); Lehi ( Utah ); Orange City ( Iowa ); Pella ( Iowa ); Mount Vernon ( Washington ); and Woodburn ( Oregon ), and in other countries such as Australia India and England.

* Bonneville Salt Flats, an ancient lake bed of Lake Bonneville in Utah often used by early auto racers and the site of most of the world land speed record runs

Black Diamond CEO Peter Metcalf has a long history of political advocacy for both the outdoor industry and the public lands of Utah, and has often united outdoor companies against policies that threaten public lands and outdoor recreation.

The miracle of the gulls is often credited by Latter-day Saints (" Mormons ") for saving the Mormon pioneers ' first harvest in Utah.

The district is often considered among the most architecturally diverse in Utah residential neighborhoods.

Marielen Christensen of Spanish Fork, Utah is often credited with turning scrapbooking as what was once just the ages-old hobby into what is now the actual industry — meaning stores that officially sell and manufacturers of scrapbooking supplies, which didn't exist before.

Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place from February 11 to February 18 in Ogden, Utah:

" As the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads approached their historic meeting place at Promontory Summit early in 1869, a group of former Union Army officers and some determined non-Mormon merchants from Salt Lake City decided to locate a Gentile town on the Union Pacific line, believing that the town could compete economically and politically with the Saints of Utah.

Riverside is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

South Willard is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

Avon is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Cache County, Utah, United States.

Benson is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Cache County, Utah, United States.

Cache Junction is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Cache County, Utah, United States.

Cove is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Cache County, Utah, United States.

Petersboro is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Cache County, Utah, United States.

In 2000, Fruit Heights was the 63rd-largest incorporated place in Utah.

In that four-year period, Sunset fell from the 59th-largest incorporated place in Utah to the 70th-largest.

Neola is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Duchesne County, Utah, United States.

Garden is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Rich County, Utah, United States.

Canyon Rim was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, that has since been consolidated with neighboring Millcreek CDP.

Cottonwood West was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

East Millcreek was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, that has since been consolidated with neighboring Millcreek CDP.

Granite is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, adjoining the City of Sandy on the east.

It grew from being the 111th-largest incorporated place in Utah in 2000 to the 32nd-largest in 2010.

Kearns is a township and census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

Little Cottonwood Creek Valley was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah.

Magna is a census-designated place ( CDP ) and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

It served as a place for both the arrival and dispersion of many Southern Slavs who immigrated to northern Utah.

Millcreek is a census-designated place ( CDP ) and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

Oquirrh was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Salt Lake County, Utah, located on the slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains that gave it its name.