Centennial Park is an

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and

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(CDP) in

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, United States. The population was 1,578 at the 2020 census, up from 1,264 at the 2010 census. It is the central location for the

Centennial Park group The Centennial Park group is a fundamentalist Mormon group, with approximately 1,500 members that is headquartered in Centennial Park, Arizona. The Centennial Park group broke with Leroy S. Johnson, leader and senior member of the Priesthood Co ...

, a fundamentalist Mormon group.

Geography

Centennial Park is located in northeastern Mohave County at (36.953806, -112.981325). It is bordered to the north by the town of Colorado City.

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passes through the CDP, leading east to Fredonia and northwest into

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, where it becomes Utah Route 59, leading to

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. According to the

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, the Centennial Park CDP has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the 2010 census, there were 1,264 people living in the CDP: 569 male and 695 female. 781 were 19 years old or younger, 242 were ages 20–34, 153 were between the ages of 35 and 49, 67 were between 50 and 64, and the remaining 21 were aged 65 and above. The median age was 15.0 years. The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.6%

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, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.2%

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, 0.1%

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, 2.0%

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, and 2.9%

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. 5.1% of the population were

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of any race. There were 207 households in the CDP, 187 family households (90.3%) and 20 non-family households (9.7%), with an average household size of 6.11. Of the family households, 127 were

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living together, with 20 single father and 40 single mother households, while the non-family households included 17 adults living alone: 5 male and 12 female. The CDP contained 225 housing units, of which 207 were occupied and 18 were vacant.

Education

It is zoned to

Colorado City Unified School District Colorado City Unified School District No. 14 is a school district headquartered in Colorado City, Arizona, serving students in the towns of Colorado City, Centennial Park and part of Cane Beds in rural Mohave County, and in Hildale, Utah. It op ...

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Mohave County, Arizona Mormon fundamentalism Populated places established in 1984 Towns in Mohave County, Arizona