1833 - The Prophet Joseph presented the plat of the “City of Zion” that was to be built in Jackson County, Missouri. It included large square blocks divided into large home lots. The streets were to run in the four cardinal directions—north-south and east-west. The center of town had a place for a temple complex. This plat was to become the model for cities built by the Saints at Far West, Missouri, Nauvoo, Illinois, Salt Lake City, Utah, and hundreds of LDS settlements in the Intermountain West.