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Various locations have been proposed as the geographical setting of the Book of Mormon, an 1830s work that purports to be a miraculously-delivered record of pre-Columbian America. While some people accept the narrative's historicity as an article of faith, mainstream views hold that the book is a creation of the 19th century which was dictated, edited, and published by Joseph Smith.
Early readers and believers both concurred that the book's climatic scene, the final battle resulting in the destruction of the Nephites, was set in Palmyra, New York at a hill Joseph Smith called Cumorah. As early as 1830, some readers felt the book's setting extended to both North and South America. By the 20th century, some followers suggested there were "two Cumorahs", with a second Cumorah located somewhere in Mesoamerica.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has no official position on the Book's geographical setting.