A trash fire smolders along South Center Street in Colorado City, Ariz.
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Girls walk on Lauritzen Street in Hildale, Utah, less than a block from the Utah-Arizona border, to Colorado City.
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Colorado City, Ariz., officials conduct a planning meeting.
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A woman performs yard maintenence at a business located on Utah St. Hiildale.
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Hildale, Utah, is just across the border from Colorado City, Ariz. Much of the property in Hildale is owned by the United Effort Plan trust, founded by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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A woman works in Hildale, Utah.
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One of numerous unoccupied homes sits unfinished in Colorado City, Ariz.
