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CASA GRANDE
The Casa Grande National Monument |
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THE CASA GRANDE RUINS
By
FRANK AND EDNA PINKLEY
THE NATIONAL MONUMENTS AT A GLANCE
Administered by National Park Service, Department of the Interior
[Number, 32; total area, 3,724 square miles or 2,383,467 acres]
| Name | Location | Area (acres) | Distinctive characteristics |
| Arches 1929 | Utah | 4,520 | Contains extraordinary examples of wind erosion in shape of gigantic arches, windows, and other unique formations. |
| Aztec Ruins† 1923 | N. Mexico | 17 | Prehistoric ruin of pueblo type containing 500 rooms and other ruins. |
| Capulin Mountain (kapu'lin) 1916 | &nbp; do | 680 | Cinder cone of geologically recent formation. |
| Casa Grande (ka'sa gran'da) 1918‡ | Arizona | 473 | These ruins are among the most noteworthy relics of a prehistoric age and people within the limits of the United States. Discovered in ruinous condition in 1694. |
| Chaco Canyon (cha'ko) 1907 | N. Mexico | *21,512 | Numerous cliff-dweller ruins, including communal houses, in good condition, and but little excavated. |
| Colorado 1911 | Colorado | 13,749 | Many lofty monoliths, and is wonderful example of erosion, and of great scenic beauty and interest. |
| Craters of the Moon 1924 | Idaho | 49,602 | Best example of fissure lava flows; volcanic region with weird landscape effects. |
| Devils Tower 1906 | Wyoming | 1,153 | Remarkable natural rock tower, of volcanic origin, 1,200 feet in height. |
| Dinosaur (di'no-sor) 1915 | Utah | 80 | Deposits of fossil remains of prehistoric animal life of great scientific interest. |
| El Morro 1906 | N. Mexico | 240 | Enormous sandstone rock eroded in form of a castle, upon which inscriptions have been placed by early Spanish explorers. Contains cliff-dweller ruins. Of great historic, scenic, and ethnologic interest. |
| Fossil Cycad 1922 | S. Dakota | 320 | Area containing deposits of plant fossils. |
| George Washington's Birthplace 1930 | Virginia | 22 | Site of home in which George Washington was born. Grounds to be restored and replica of the old homestead to be erected. |
| Glacier Bay 1925 | Alaska | *1,154,800 | Contains tidewater glaciers of first rank. |
| Gran Quivari (gran ke-ve're) 1909 | N. Mexico | 424 | One of the most important of earliest Spanish mission ruins in the Southwest. Monument also contains pueblo ruins. |
| Hovenweep 1923 | Utah-Colo. | 286 | Four groups of prehistoric towers, pueblos, and cliff dwellings. |
| Katmai (kat'mi) 1918 | Alaska | *1,087,990 | Wonderland of great scientific interest in study of volcanism. Phenomena exist upon a scale of great magnitude. Includes Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. |
| Lewis & Clark Cavern† 1908 | Montana | 160 | Immense limestone cavern of great scientific interest, magnificently decorated with stalactite formations. Now closed to public because of depredations by vandals. |
| Montezuma Castle 1906 | Arizona | *160 | Prehistoric cliff-dweller ruin of unusual size situated in a niche in face of a vertical cliff. Of scenic and ethnologic interest. |
| Muir Woods† (mur) 1908 | California | 426 | One of the most noted redwood groves in California, and was donated by Hon. William Kent, ex-Member of Congress. Located 7 miles from San Francisco. |
| Natural Bridges 1908 | Utah | *2,740 | Three natural bridges, among largest examples of their kind. Largest bridge is 222 feet high, 65 feet thick at top of arch; arch is 28 feet wide; span, 261 feet; height of span, 157 feet. Other two slightly smaller. |
| Navajo (nav'a-ho)1909 | Arizona | 360 | Contains numerous pueblo, or cliff-dweller ruins, in good preservation. |
| Petrified Forest 1906 | do | 25,908 | Abundance of petrified coniferous trees, one of which forms a small natural bridge. is of great scientific interest. |
| Pinnacles 1908 | California | 2,980 | Many spirelike rock formations, 600 to 1,000 feet high, visible many miles; also numerous caves and other formations. |
| Pipe Spring 1923 | Arizona | 40 | Old stone fort and spring of pure water in desert region, serves as memorial to early western pioneer life. |
| Rainbow Bridge 1910 | Utah | 160 | Unique natural bridge of great scientific interest and symmetry. Height 309 feet above water, and span 278 feet, in shape of rainbow. |
| Scotts Bluff 1919 | Nebraska | 1,894 | Region of historic and scientific interest. Many famous old trails traversed by the early pioneers in the winning of the West passed over and through this monument. |
| Shoshone Cavern (sho-sho'-ne) 1909 | Wyoming | 210 | Cavern of considerable extent, near Cody. Not open to visitors at present. |
| Sitka 1910 | Alaska | 57 | Area of great natural beauty and historic interest as scene of massacre of Russians by Indians. Contains 16 totem poles of best native workmanship. |
| Tumacacori (tuma-ka'-go-re) 1908 | Arizona | 10 | Ruin of Franciscan mission dating from seventeenth century. Being restored by National Park Service as rapidly as funds permit. |
| Verendrye (ver-ron-dre) 1917 | N. Dakota | 250 | Includes Crowhigh Butte, from which Explorer Verendrye first beheld territory beyond Missouri River. |
| Wupatki 192 | Arizona | 2,234 | Prehistoric dwellings of ancestors of Hopi Indians. |
| Yucca House† (yuc-ca) 1919 | Colorado | 10 | Located on eastern slope of Sleeping Ute Mountain. Is a pile of masonry of great archeological value, relic of prehistoric inhabitants. |
‡ From June 22, 1892, until Aug. 3, 1918 classified as a national park.
* Estimated.
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