Saturday, November 26, 2011

4 New Stakes - Alabama, Utah, Peru & Venezuela


Four new stakes have been created.

A new stake has been created called the Arequipa Peru Paucarpata Stake. This stake is in the South east part of Peru. This is the 4th new stake in Peru in 2011. There are now 98 Stakes in Peru and 632 in South America.

A new stake has been created called the Cabimas Venezuela Stake. This stake is in the Northern part of Venezuela. This is the 4th new stake in Venezuela in 2011. There are now 34 Stakes in Venezuela. That puts it 2 ahead of Australia, 2 behind England and tied with Ecuador.  There have been 23 stakes created outside of the US this year. There have been 22 stakes created inside of the US this year.

A new stake has been created called the Farmington Utah West Stake. Farmington is north of Salt Lake City between Bountiful and Ogden and will soon use the Brigham City temple.  This is the 15th Stake created in Utah in 2011, but 10 of them were Young Single Adult (YSA) Stakes. Utah now has 563 stakes.

A new stake has been created called the Madison Alabama Stake. This is in the Northern part of Alabama and takes in part of Tennessee and is in between Huntsville and Decatur. This is the first new stake in Alabama since the Civil War, no actually since 1986 and 1982.  There are now 7 stakes in Alabama -  Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, & Oklahoma also have 7 stakes. Maryland, Michigan, and Minnesota have 8 while Louisiana, South Carolina, & Wisconsin have 6.  There are now 1,495 stakes in the US and 1,453 outside the US, so 50.7% are in the US.


Here are the maps 




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