Devils Tower

<p>Devils Tower (also known as Mato Tipila or Bear Lodge) is a <a href="/facts/Butte/3SweAQWG">butte</a>, <a href="/facts/Laccolith/DaxRJ00u">laccolithic</a>, composed of <a href="/facts/Igneous_rock/xeMJhUah">igneous rock</a> in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the <a href="/facts/Black_Hills/DQzybXIX">Black Hills</a>, near <a href="/facts/Hulett%2c_Wyoming/Qyk7Bc6T">Hulett</a> and <a href="/facts/Sundance%2c_Wyoming/bzF1pkg7">Sundance</a> in <a href="/facts/Crook_County%2c_Wyoming/XNXw90ln">Crook County</a>, northeastern <a href="/facts/Wyoming/kuKmWryL">Wyoming</a>, above the <a href="/facts/Belle_Fourche_River/egad2B7I">Belle Fourche River</a>. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.
</p><p>Devils Tower National Monument was the first <a href="/facts/National_monument_(United_States)/X36n842q">United States national monument</a>, established on September 24, 1906, by President <a href="/facts/Theodore_Roosevelt/WzUPbcbo">Theodore Roosevelt</a>. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
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Devils Tower