The novel Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide (Deseret Book, 2019), by Dean Hughes, tells the story of the early LDS pioneers in the settlement. The book's protagonist, Henry Lord, is based on Hugh Lord. Thomas (GWP, 2018) by Jackson Ellis tells the story of the last family to vacate the flooded town in 1938 following construction of the Boulder Dam. Thomas interpretive center with a staff archaeologist doing on-going research into the history and settlement of the Muddy River. The cemetery was relocated to Overton, Nevada where there is a St. Thomas, which became visible after the water level in Lake Mead lowered, are protected by the National Park Service as a historic site. The construction of Hoover Dam and the resulting rise in the waters of the Colorado River forced the abandonment of the town, with the last resident, Hugh Lord, leaving June 11, 1938. Thomas and other places in the area in the 1880s. After being deserted by most of its first settlers, new LDS settlers came to the St. Thomas, who farmed, mined and owned Bonelli's Ferry on the Colorado River at Junction City later Rioville. One of the few to remain was Daniel Bonelli of St. When the LDS Church members left in 1871, others claimed their abandoned properties. The LDS Church members moved to Utah, where many of them founded new towns in Long Valley (present day Glendale, Orderville, and Mount Carmel). They chose to leave without paying in 1871. The state of Nevada then attempted to collect taxes for previous years payable only in gold from the residents. Thomas in February 1871, as a land survey shifted the state line of Nevada one degree longitude to the east, placing all of the LDS settlements known as the Muddy Mission in Nevada instead of Arizona or Utah. The frontier settlement is noted as the endpoint of explorer John Wesley Powell's first Colorado River expedition, the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869. Thomas became an established town of farms and businesses, and was at one point the county seat of Pahute County. With a population of about 500 at its peak, St.

The town was founded by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), led by Thomas Smith in 1865. It is now located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. However, as the level of Lake Mead dropped in the 2000s, the ruins of the town resurfaced. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town in the 1930s. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. A salvage crew floats by an abandoned building as Lake Mead fills with water

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