U.S. National Monuments

List of U.S. National Monuments

107 records

Site Name Size (sq.miles) State Founded
(Fort Moultrie)* .01 South Carolina 1960
Admiralty Island 1,529.49 Alaska 1978
African Burial Ground .00 New York 1992
Agate Fossil Beds 4.78 Nebraska 1965
Agua Fria 113.04 Arizona 2000
Alibates Flint Quarries 2.14 Texas 1965
Aniakchak 214.34 Alaska 1978
Aztec Ruins .50 New Mexico 1923
Bandelier 52.62 New Mexico 1916
Booker T. Washington .37 Virginia 1956
Buck Island Reef 29.71 U.S. Virgin Islands 1961
Cabrillo .25 California 1913
California Coastal .95 California 2000
Canyon de Chelly 131.00 Arizona 1931
Canyons of the Ancients 286.14 Colorado 2000
Cape Krusenstern 1,014.19 Alaska 1978
Capulin Volcano 1.24 New Mexico 1916
Carrizo Plain 385.64 California 2001
Casa Grande Ruins .74 Arizona 1889
Cascade-Siskiyou 137.65 Oregon 2000
Castillo de San Marcos .03 Florida 1924
Castle Clinton .00 New York 1946
Cedar Breaks 9.62 Utah 1933
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers .09 Ohio 2013
Chiricahua 18.73 Arizona 1924
Colorado 32.08 Colorado 1911
Craters Of The Moon 1,175.50 Idaho 1924
Devils Postpile 1.25 California 1911
Devils Tower 2.10 Wyoming 1906
Dinosaur 328.57 Utah 1915
Effigy Mounds 3.95 Iowa 1949
El Malpais 178.56 New Mexico 1987
El Morro 2.00 New Mexico 1906
First State 1.73 Delaware 2013
Florissant Fossil Beds 9.37 Colorado 1969
Fort Frederica .44 Georgia 1936
Fort Matanzas .47 Florida 1924
Fort McHenry .51 Maryland 1925
Fort Monroe .07 Virginia 2011
Fort Ord 22.89 California 2012
Fort Pulaski 8.79 Georgia 1924
Fort Stanwix .02 New York 1935
Fort Sumter .37 South Carolina 1948
Fort Union 1.13 New Mexico 1954
Fossil Butte 12.81 Wyoming 1972
George Washington Birthplace 1.03 Virginia 1930
George Washington Carver .33 Missouri 1943
Giant Sequoia 512.14 California 2000
Gila Cliff Dwellings .83 New Mexico 1907
Governors Island .04 New York 2001
Grand Canyon-Parashant 1,638.00 Arizona 2000
Grand Portage 1.11 Minnesota 1951
Grand Staircase-Escalante 2,937.66 Utah 1996
Hagerman Fossil Beds 6.80 Idaho 1988
Hanford Reach 304.69 Washington 2000
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad 18.36 Maryland 2013
Hohokam Pima 2.64 Arizona 1972
Homestead .33 Nebraska 1936
Hovenweep 1.23 Colorado 1923
Ironwood Forest 294.72 Arizona 2000
Jewel Cave 1.99 South Dakota 1908
John Day Fossil Beds 21.97 Oregon 1974
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks 8.44 New Mexico 2001
Lava Beds 72.96 California 1925
Little Bighorn Battlefield 1.20 Montana 1940
Marianas Trench .00 Pennsylvania 2009
Misty Fjords 3,583.46 Alaska 1978
Montezuma Castle 1.34 Arizona 1906
Mount Saint Helens 175.93 Washington 1982
Muir Woods .86 California 1908
Natural Bridges 11.93 Utah 1908
Navajo .56 Arizona 1909
Newberry 85.66 Oregon 1990
Ocmulgee 1.10 Georgia 1934
Oregon Caves .76 Oregon 1909
Organ Pipe Cactus 516.70 Arizona 1937
Pacific Remote Islands 12.08 Pennsylvania 2009
Papahanaumokuakea 5.02 Hawaii 1909
Petroglyph 11.77 New Mexico 1990
Pipe Spring .06 Arizona 1923
Pipestone .44 Minnesota 1937
Pompeys Pillar .08 Montana 2001
Poverty Point 1.42 Louisiana 1988
Prehistoric Trackways 8.21 New Mexico 2009
President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home .00 Washington D.C. 1973
Rainbow Bridge .25 Utah 1910
Rio Grande Del Norte 378.99 New Mexico 2013
Rose Atoll .03 American Samoa 2009
Russell Cave .49 Alabama 1961
Salinas Pueblo Missions 1.67 New Mexico 1909
San Juan Islands 1.52 Washington 2013
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains 437.61 California 2000
Scotts Bluff 4.70 Nebraska 1919
Sonoran Desert 775.62 Arizona 2001
Statue of Liberty .10 New York 1924
Sunset Crater Volcano 4.75 Arizona 1930
Timpanogos Cave .39 Utah 1922
Tonto 1.75 Arizona 1907
Tuzigoot 1.27 Arizona 1939
Upper Missouri River Breaks 774.14 Montana 2001
Vermillion Cliffs 458.89 Arizona 2000
Virgin Islands Coral Reef 19.86 U.S. Virgin Islands 2001
Walnut Canyon 5.51 Arizona 1915
White Sands 224.58 New Mexico 1933
World War II Valor in the Pacific .09 Hawaii 1962
Wupatki 55.35 Arizona 1924
Yucca House .05 Colorado 1919

Notes

  • Last updated on November 13, 2013
  • U.S. National Monuments data as of November 13, 2013 courtesy of Johnston's Archive.