Editing Zarahemla (section)

=== Namesakes ===
In 1841, Joseph Smith dictated a revelation instructing Latter-day Saints in [[Iowa]] to establish a city across the [[Mississippi River]] from [[Nauvoo, Illinois]] and name it after Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kimball|1978|pp=138–139}}; {{Harvtxt|Woods|2003|p=87}}.</ref> A settlement of Latter-day Saints, located across the Mississippi River from Nauvoo and south of [[Montrose, Iowa]], was called ''Zarahemla''.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kahlert|2016|pp=198, 265}}.</ref> The Zarahemla Stake{{Efn|Among Latter-day Saints, a ''stake'' is a regional unit of ecclesiastical organization which oversees several local units, or congregations (known as ''wards'').<ref>{{Harvnb|Alexander|Bitton|2019|p=252}}.</ref>}} in Iowa was abandoned in 1842.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kahlert|2016|p=265}}.</ref> In the nineteenth century, [[Blanchardville, Wisconsin]] was called Zarahemla.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kelty|2011|pp=88–89}}.</ref> In 1850, under the direction of [[Zenas H. Gurley Sr.|Zenas H. Gurley]], Latter Day Saints who lived there and were unaffiliated with [[Brigham Young]]'s [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] organized into the Yellowstone Branch.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kelty|2011|pp=91–92}}.</ref> Zarahemla was the location of the Reorganization's first or second conference, held in 1853.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Ishikawa|1979|p=62}} calls it the first conference; {{Harvtxt|Barlow|2004|p=30}} states it is the second.</ref> The congregation at Zarahemla dissolved in 1860.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Kelty|2011|p=101}}.</ref>

Zarahemla, Utah is named after the city from the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Eliason|2023|p=74}}.</ref> The second book in author Gary Stewart's Gabe Utley detective series, published in 1986, is titled ''The Zarahemla Vision''.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Brady|1987|pp=238–239}}.</ref> Its narrative is set in Salt Lake City and involves the apparent kidnapping of the LDS Church president.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Vicarel|1986|p=114}}.</ref> As part of appropriating Mormon themes of revelation and ideas about indigenous resurgence, Kanaka Maoli author Matthew Kaopio's 2005 novel ''Written in the Sky'' invokes the name Zarahemla to allude to the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Amos|2016|pp=197, 199, 208}}.</ref> One of the novel's characters, Dr. Owlfeathers, is from the nonexistent Zarahemla University.<ref>{{Harvtxt|Amos|2016|p=209}}.</ref>