Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited

From FAIRMormon

Model Name	Date Proposed	Scope	Narrow Neck	Land North	Land South	Cumorah	River Sidon	Nephi's Landing	Religion	Type of model
Hills 1917	1917	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Central Mexico	Usumacinta	Central America	RLDS	External	edit
Young pre-1920?	1920	LGT	Other	Guatemala	Honduras-El Salvador	Guatemala	Ulna	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Gunsolley 1922	1922	LGT	Panama	Panama to NY	South America	Central Mexico	Magdalena	Chile?	RLDS	Minimal external	edit
Jakeman 1940s	1940	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Central Mexico	Usumacinta	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Birrell 1948	1948	LGT	Other	Ecuador-Columbia	Peru and south	In South America	In Peru	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Simmons 1948	1948	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Usumacinta	Central America	RLDS	External	edit
Ferguson-Hunter 1950	1950	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Usumacinta?	Central America	LDS	Minimal internal & external	edit
Stout 1950	1950	LGT	Other	Unclear	Other	Unclear	Other	Central America	RLDS	External	edit
Hanson 1951	1951	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz?	Unclear	Central America?	RLDS	Minimal external	edit
Pierce 1954	1954	LGT	Other	Yucatan Peninsula	Unclear	Guatemala	Ulna	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Sorenson 1955	1955	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Tehuantepec - El Salvador	Southern Veracruz	Grijalva	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Hammond 1959	1959	LGT	Tehuantepec?	Unclear	Tehuantepec - El Salvador?	Central Mexico?	Usumacinta	Chile	LDS	Internal and Minimal External	edit
Lowe 1960a	1960	LGT	Honduras Bay	Guatemala	Other	Guatemala	Unclear	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Lowe 1960b	1960	LGT	Other	Unclear	Other	Southern Veracruz?	Usumacinta	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Vincent 1960?	1960	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Central Mexico	Usumacinta?	Central America?	LDS	External	edit
Warren 1960	1960	LGT	Tehuantepec?	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Central Mexico	Usumacinta	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Warren 1961	1961	LGT	Unclear	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Usumacinta	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Norman 1966	1966	LGT	Tehuantepec?	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan?	Unclear	Usumacinta	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Christensen 1969	1969	LGT	Belize-Yucatan base	Yucatan Peninsula	Unclear	Guatemala?	Ulna	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Lowe 1970s	1970	LGT	Other	Unclear	Other	Southern Veracruz?	Usumacinta	Central America?	LDS	External	edit
Priddis 1975	1975	LGT	Other	Ecuador-Columbia	Other	In South America	Unclear	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Steede 1975	1975	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz?	Usumacinta?	Central America	RLDS	External	edit
Loving 1976	1976	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Usumacinta	Unclear	RLDS	External	edit
DeLong 1977	1977	LGT	Tehuantepec	Yucatan Peninsula	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Central Mexico	Usumacinta	Unclear	RLDS	External	edit
Robison 1977	1977	LGT	Belize-Yucatan base	Yucatan Peninsula	Southern Guatemala	Guatemala	Usumacinta	Unclear	LDS	External	edit
Ellsworth 1980	1980	LGT	Other	Unclear	Other	Unclear	Other	Central America	LDS	Internal & limited external	edit
Lesh 1980	1980	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Ulna	Central America	RLDS	External	edit
Palmer 1981	1981	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Tehuantepec - El Salvador	Southern Veracruz	Grijalva	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Holley 1983	1983	LGT	Niagra peninsula	Lower Canada?	NY, Penn, Ohio	New York	Genesse	New England coast	LDS	External	edit
Porritt 1985	1985	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Grijalva	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Kocherhans 1986	1986	LGT	Other	Ecuador-Columbia	Peru and south	In South America	In Peru	Chile	LDS	External	edit
Sahlin 1987	1987	LGT	Unclear	Unclear	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Unclear	Grijalva	Unclear	LDS	External	edit
Warren 1987	1987	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Tehuantepec - El Salvador	Southern Veracruz	Grijalva	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Hauck 1988	1988	LGT	Other	Unclear	Southern Guatemala	Southern Veracruz	Other	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Qulter 1988	1988	LGT	Belize-Yucatan base	Yucatan Peninsula	Southern Guatemala	Unclear	Other	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Allen 1989	1989	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Southern Veracruz	Grijalva	Central America	LDS	External	edit
Clark 1989	1989		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	LDS	Internal	edit
Meldrum 2003	2003?	LGT	Niagara Peninsula	Upper Canada	Mississippi river system to Gulf of Mexico	New York	Mississippi	Gulf of Mexico	LDS	External	edit
Poulsen 2004	2004	LGT	Tehuantepec	South-Central Mexico	Southern Mesoamerica, incl Yucatan	Tepetzintla (further North than Veracruz)	Grijalva	Central America	LDS	External	edit

Table based on John L. Sorenson, The Geography of Book of Mormon Events: A Source Book (Provo, Utah: FARMS, revised edition, 1992), 32. AISN B0006QHZWE. off-site with additions and corrections by FAIR Wiki editors.

Book of Mormon geography models in table form:

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• By Type
  • External (real world) models
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Book of Mormon Geography

• Book of Mormon geography
  • Statements made by LDS leaders
    • First Presidency Letter
  • Old World
  • New World
    • Hemispheric geography theory (HGT)
    • Limited geography theory (LGT)
      • Plates to New York
      • Great Lakes geography?
        • Vernal Holley (1983) geography
      • DNA and geographic issues
        • Haplotype X2a?
    • Demographics and Population sizes
    • Lamanites in the Doctrine and Covenants
    • Borders of the Lamanites
    • Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders
    • Zarahemla near Nauvoo?
    • Zelph
    • Place names from Joseph's environment?
      • Comoros Islands and Moroni
• New World geography models in table form
• Historicity of Book of Mormon
• Archaeology and the Bible