The Denver, Colorado, metropolitan area and a three-county section of southwestern Wyoming have the largest numbers of Latter-day Saint stakes among the four eastern Rockies states.
Those states have 81 stakes in total — 35 in Colorado, 19 in Wyoming, 14 in New Mexico and 13 in Montana — according to the most recent statistics available on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The accompanying map shows metro areas — defined by the U.S. government as metropolitan statistical areas — or counties that have two or more stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Denver is by far the most populous area within the four states, with about 3 million residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Fifteen stakes have headquarters in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area.
The three counties that comprise the southwest corner of Wyoming — Uinta, Lincoln and Sweetwater — have seven stakes among about 83,000 residents.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the second-most-populous area in the region, with 921,000 residents and six stakes, followed by Colorado Springs, Colorado, with 765,000 residents and five stakes, and Fort Collins, Colorado, with 360,000 residents and three stakes.
The four states have six dedicated temples.
Colorado has two, in Denver (dedicated in 1986) and Fort Collins (2016), and one under construction, in Grand Junction.
Montana has two dedicated houses of the Lord, in Helena (2023), about 90 miles southwest of Great Falls, and in Billings (1999).
Wyoming has one dedicated temple, the Star Valley Wyoming Temple (2016), in Lincoln County; one under construction, in Casper; and one in planing stages, in Cody, in the northwestern part of the state.
New Mexico has one operating temple, in Albuquerque (2000), and one under construction, in Farmington.
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