My Aunt told me that there were many small towns in Wisconsin that were either 100% Catholic or 100% Lutheran back when many Germans were emigrating to the state. She also said that church services were usually done in German.
This might not have been all that unusual once upon a time. Several very small towns in northern Ohio used to be pretty much entirely Welsh Presbyterian.
Yeah, but there’s the Middle East, South/Central America, and Eastern and Southern Europe, plus Africa - I imagine that most small towns in these regions are one religion.
Actually, one group split off from the first during a disputed succession in the leadership, so there are now **two **Mormon Fundamentalist sects in Colorado City AZ/Hildale UT. At the time Krakauer wrote Under the Banner of Heaven, there was at least one atheist apostate living there, an exception to prove the rule.
Much the same has happened in Bountiful BC, where Winston Blackmore, formerly the leader of the BC area FLDS, was excommunicated and took a bunch of people with him. I don’t know if any of the people that left the FLDS are not related to him, as he is said to have upwards of 20 wives.
Came in here to say Utah, but Sandy Hook beat me to it.
If we define “Christian” as a religion, then yes, I’m sure that there are thousands, if not more, in America alone.
When my dad was growing up in Kanab, UT in the 1950s, his dad was the only Catholic in the town of 1,500 and there were only two other families that weren’t Mormon.
For small town Utah in that time period, that was actually fairly diverse. 
I grew up in a small Mennonite town in Saskatchewan. I was only half-Mennonite, which was somewhat odd by the town standards where most people were Mennonite. As far as I recall, all the churches in town were Mennonite Brethren. At least one of the churches was old-colony Mennonite, and offered services in Low German (the language that my particular branch of Mennonite spoke), where the women were not allowed to wear pants or have their heads uncovered. It was not a closed town in any way; I don’t think you would have known you were in a Mennonite town unless you really looked for it (like noticing that all the churches were MB).
Have you ever read ‘The Great Brain’ series of childrens novels? They’re about an Irish Catholic family of three boys growing up in southern Utah in the late 19th century. They’re not as famous as other kids series but as period pieces they’re absolutely wonderful. I believe they are loosely autobiographical.
Its not finished yet, but Ave Maria, FL intends to be planned community centered around a new Catholic university by the same name. Being a planned community in Florida I assume it would draw some non-Catholics just as a nice place to live, but from what I’ve read it seems the spirit of the the town is that it be a conservative Catholic community.
My sister & brother-in-law moved to a small town in southern Iowa in the late 70’s where my BIL was to become the new bank president. The president of the chamber of commerce was taking them on a tour and said “You’ll like it here, no Blacks and damned few Catholics”.
My aunt says that there are some towns in the South that are full Baptist, I’m not sure about that, though it seems entirely plausible for the Deep South.
Wow. From the Wiki page:
My uncle lived in Kanab for about 10 years or so. He was a non-mormon married to a mormon. It didn’t last.
Although it seems like my town is a good example of this at times, there are some Catholics, Jews, and VERY few atheists (myself included). Other than that the town is overwhelmingly fundamentalist Christian. Maybe 96% of the people.
You are sorta close. First of all, CMKeller, those non-Orthodox live in the unincorporated Town of Monoe. A few are actually over the line into Blooming Grove, NY. Up Seven Springs Road or Mountain Road, and whatnot. None live within the village of Kiryas Joel, such as it is defined by it’s own ruling body.
Kiryas Joel was planned from Day One ( pardon the joke 
). The Village was laid out, lands were bought and more and more lands. The Village has grown and now may more than double in size due to an extremely underhanded land deal that went down a bit more than a year ago involving the lands owned by Ace Farms on County Rt. 105.
The government has no power to close roads during the Sabbath. Coupla weeks ago I drove straight through K.J. on my way to Ridge Road in Woodbury on the Sabbath. No roads are closed during ANY religious observances. It is against the law and not even the Teitelbaum Brothers ( warring factions struggling to “control” K.J. ) would dare block an ambulance or fire truck. Having said this, I know that the sidewalks are meaningless on the Shabbat because no members would be driving. I drove through there at a crawl because people use the street as a sidwalk. One might ask why I did this- it was to save a heck of a long-way-around drive. And, I’ve done it before and don’t sweat it.
The Village has no official police. They have " Public Safety" officers…ahem. No weapons, no legal powers. The New York State Police department, which conveniently has Troop F situated just off of the edges of the Village at the intersection of Rt. 105 and Nininger Road, is the official police presence in K.J. They are also, let me add, the official police presence everywhere in the Town of Monroe outside of the limits of the Village of Monroe and the Village of Harriman, both of which have police departments.
As for emergency services, I can address that as well. As a former E.M.T. and member of a local ambulance corps, here is the deal. Kiryas Joel Volunteer Ambulance is a part of the Hatzolah Ambulance organization. Unique in New York State, they are the only chartered emergency service that is not bound by geographical limits. They are permitted to respond, transport and serve within the State of New York. No other emergency service- including the much-beloved FDNY EMS- is permitted such lattitude in response and service area.
So, they have an ambulance corps. They’re the only ambulances I’ve ever seen with small curtains that can be drawn acros the back windows for privacy. I kind of like that, actually. At night, anyone on a slight incline gets a great view of whatever is happening in the back of the bus and sometimes that includes a great deal of disrobement.
As for fire: Until recently, there was no seriously organized KJFD. They had a pathetic old truck and a few guys who had done Fire Essentials through Monroe FD, or Woodbury or Harriman or somesuch. It was bad. In the last few years, they have upgraded a bit and tried to have a more professional presence. It is a simple fact that they do not have enough personnel to man a fire department and always “turf out” calls to the surrounding fire departments.
Pride goeth before the fall. They do indeed hate having outsiders in their homes and stores ( I do shop there sometimes. Can’t beat kosher chicken !! ), but nobody in that community would ever dare to stop a fire fighter from doing their job, no matter where they were from. This comes from first hand knowledge.
As for percentages, Kiryas Joel as a religious community and incorporated village has always been by design 100 % Satmar Sect Hasidim. No outsiders are permitted to reside there.
It’s interesting. I don’t know why someone who is NOT a Satmar Hasid would actively try to rent an apartment there, and I know not how it would be handled legally.
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Not far from here there is a little farming community that was specifically organized as a town for immigrant South German Catholics. All of the land was once owned by the Bishop of Dubuque. Almost all the land titles run straight from the Bishop and all subsequent transfers are inter-family of by testamentary bequest or intestate succession. The town is still pretty much all RC and there is only one church building. Until recently the public consolidated school district had not more than two or three non-Catholic families. We are still cleaning up real estate problems created before WWII by the local priest who effectively functioned as the town government, municipal court, surveyor and general person in charge of everything. He had some pretty bizarre ideas about a proper real estate description and the rules of intestate succession. Until recently just about every household in town could claim a priest of nun in the immediate family.
I had a friend who served his Mormon mission on the island of Sicily. He said there were quite a few small towns that were 100% Catholic.
That’s only because they build an Abbey and have at least three Cardinals hanging around the island all the darn time. My Moors have never gotten the Cathlicism down below 95%, and lord know’s you’ll never increase the Religious Unrest factor appreciably that way!
Zion Illinois was once monoreligious.
And…creepy.