Editing Devils Tower (section)

{{Short description|Flat-topped volcanic plug in Wyoming, US}}
{{other uses|Devil's Tower (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox mountain
 | name              = Devils Tower<br />(Bear Lodge)
 | other_name        = Matȟó Thípila ([[Lakota language|Lakota]]), Daxpitcheeaasáao ([[Crow language|Crow]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.lbhc.edu/index.php?q=node/200&a=D |title=Apsáalooke Place Names Database |publisher=Little Big Horn College |access-date=May 24, 2020}}</ref>
 | photo             = Devils_Tower_in_Wyoming.jpg
 | photo_size        = 
 | photo_alt         = 
 | photo_caption     = 
 | elevation_ft      = 5112
 | elevation_ref     = {{NAVD88}}<ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger |pid=6220 |name=Devils Tower, Wyoming |access-date=December 14, 2012}}</ref>
 | prominence_ft     = 
 | prominence_ref    = 
 | range             = [[Bear Lodge Mountains]], part of the [[Black Hills]]
 | location          = [[Crook County, Wyoming]], United States
 | coordinates       = {{coord|44|35|26|N|104|42|55| W|region:US-WY_type:mountain|display = inline,title}}
 | coordinates_ref   = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=1609083 |name=Devils Tower |access-date=December 14, 2012}}</ref>
 | topo              = [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Devils Tower
 | type              = [[Laccolith]]
 | age               = 
 | first_ascent      = William Rogers and Willard Ripley, July 4, 1893
 | easiest_route     = [[Durrance Route]]
 | mapframe-zoom = 13
}}
{{Infobox protected area
 | name              = Devils Tower National Monument
 | iucn_category     = III
 | iucn_ref          = <ref name="protectedplanet">{{cite web|url=https://www.protectedplanet.net/2988|title=Devils Tower in United States of America|website=[[Protected Planet]]|publisher=[[IUCN]]|access-date=2018-11-02}}</ref>
 | photo             = 
 | photo_caption     = 
 | map               = USA#USA Wyoming
 | label             = Devils Tower
 | relief            = 1
 | map_caption       = Location in the United States
 | location          = 
 | nearest_city      = [[Hulett, Wyoming]]
 | coordinates       = {{coord|44|35|26|N|104|42|55|W|display = inline}}
 | area_acre         = 1346
 | area_ref          = <ref name="area">{{NPS area |year=2011 |access-date=May 13, 2012}}</ref>
 | established       = {{start date and age|1906|9|24}}<ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Proclamation 658: Setting aside Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming |wslink=Proclamation 658 |date=24 September 1906}}</ref>
 | visitation_num    = 499,031
 | visitation_year   = 2017
 | visitation_ref    = <ref name="visits">{{NPS visitation |access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref>
 | governing_body    = [[National Park Service]]
 | website           = [https://www.nps.gov/deto Devils Tower National Monument]
}}
{{multiple image
|image1 = Devils Tower Darton 1900.jpg
|image2 = Belle Fourche River 19A.JPG
|footer = Devils Tower in 1900 (left), and red sandstone and siltstone cliffs above the Belle Fourche River (right)
|total_width = 440
}}

'''Devils Tower''' (also known as '''Mato Tipila''' or '''Bear Lodge''')<ref>"''Mato Tipila'', or Bear's Lodge, the stunning monolith of stone in northeastern Wyoming that settlers dubbed 'Devil's Tower.{{'"}} Jason Mark, ''Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man'' (2015),  [https://books.google.com/books?id=-5x4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 p. 166]. "Devil's Tower, beyond the Black Hills, forms the Buffalo's Head, with the face, Bear Butte as the Buffalo's Nose, and ''Inyan Kaga'' as the Black Buffalo Horn." Jessica Dawn Palmer, ''The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863'' (2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=vRAQm175ii0C&pg=PA203 p. 203].</ref> is a [[butte]], [[laccolith]]ic, composed of [[igneous rock]] in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the [[Black Hills]], near [[Hulett, Wyoming|Hulett]] and [[Sundance, Wyoming|Sundance]] in [[Crook County, Wyoming|Crook County]], northeastern [[Wyoming]], above the [[Belle Fourche River]]. It rises {{convert|1,267|ft|m}} above the Belle Fourche River, standing {{convert|867|ft|m}} from summit to base. The summit is {{convert|5,112|ft|m}} above sea level.

'''Devils Tower National Monument''' was the first [[National monument (United States)|United States national monument]], established on September 24, 1906, by President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/deto/historyculture/upload/First%2050%20Years.pdf|title=Devils Tower First 50 Years|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=October 11, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531175438/http://www.nps.gov/deto/historyculture/upload/First%2050%20Years.pdf|archive-date=May 31, 2009}}</ref> The monument's boundary encloses an area of {{convert|1347|acres|ha}}.