List of U.S. National Monuments

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 22 August 2021

monume
Admiralty Island
African Burial Ground
Agate Fossil Beds
Agua Fria
Alibates Flint Quarries
Aniakchak
Aztec Ruins
Bandelier
Basin and Range
Bears Ears
Belmont-Paul
Berryessa Snow Mountain
Birmingham Civil Rights
Booker T. Washington
Browns Canyon
Buck Island Reef
Cabrillo
California Coastal
Camp Nelson
Canyon de Chelly
Canyons of the Ancients
Cape Krusenstern
Capulin Volcano
Carrizo Plain
Casa Grande Ruins
Cascade-Siskiyou
Castillo de San Marcos
Castle Clinton
Castle Mountains
Cedar Breaks
Cesar E. Chavez
Charles
Chimney Rock
Chiricahua
Colorado
Craters Of The Moon
Craters Of The Moon
Devils Postpile
Devils Tower
Dinosaur
Effigy Mounds
El Malpais
El Morro
Florissant Fossil Beds
Fort Frederica
Fort Matanzas
Fort McHenry
Fort Monroe
Fort Ord
Fort Pulaski
Fort Stanwix
Fort Union
Fossil Butte
Freedom Riders
George Washington Birthplace
George Washington Carver
Giant Sequoia
Gila Cliff Dwellings
Gold Butte
Governors Island
Grand Canyon-Parashant
Grand Portage
Grand Staircase-Escalante
Hagerman Fossil Beds
Hanford Reach
Hohokam Pima
Homestead
Hovenweep
Ironwood Forest
Jewel Cave
John Day Fossil Beds
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks
Katahdin Woods and Waters
Lava Beds
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Marianas Trench
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
Military Working Dog Teams
Mill Springs Battlefield
Misty Fjords
Mojave Trails
Montezuma Castle
Mount Saint Helens
Muir Woods
Natural Bridges
Navajo
Newberry
Northeast
Oregon Caves
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
Organ Pipe Cactus
Pacific Remote Islands
Papahanaumokuakea
Petroglyph
Pipe Spring
Pipestone
Pompeys Pillar
Poverty Point
Prehistoric Trackways
President
Pullman
Rainbow Bridge
Rio Grande Del Norte
Rose Atoll
Russell Cave
Saint Francis Dam
Salinas Pueblo Missions
San Gabriel Mountains
San Juan Islands
Sand to Snow
Santa Rosa
Scotts Bluff
Sonoran Desert
Statue of Liberty
Stonewall
Sunset Crater Volcano
Timpanogos Cave
Tonto
Tule Lake
Tule Springs Fossil Beds
Tuzigoot
Upper Missouri River Breaks
Vermillion Cliffs
Virgin Islands Coral Reef
Waco Mammoth
Walnut Canyon
Wupatki
Yucca House

monume
Admiralty Island
African Burial Ground
Agate Fossil Beds
Agua Fria
Alibates Flint Quarries
Aniakchak
Aztec Ruins
Bandelier
Basin and Range
Bears Ears
Belmont-Paul
Berryessa Snow Mountain
Birmingham Civil Rights
Booker T. Washington
Browns Canyon
Buck Island Reef
Cabrillo
California Coastal
Camp Nelson
Canyon de Chelly
Canyons of the Ancients
Cape Krusenstern
Capulin Volcano
Carrizo Plain
Casa Grande Ruins
Cascade-Siskiyou
Castillo de San Marcos
Castle Clinton
Castle Mountains
Cedar Breaks
Cesar E. Chavez
Charles
Chimney Rock
Chiricahua
Colorado
Craters Of The Moon
Craters Of The Moon
Devils Postpile
Devils Tower
Dinosaur
Effigy Mounds
El Malpais
El Morro
Florissant Fossil Beds
Fort Frederica
Fort Matanzas
Fort McHenry
Fort Monroe
Fort Ord
Fort Pulaski
Fort Stanwix
Fort Union
Fossil Butte
Freedom Riders
George Washington Birthplace
George Washington Carver
Giant Sequoia
Gila Cliff Dwellings
Gold Butte
Governors Island
Grand Canyon-Parashant
Grand Portage
Grand Staircase-Escalante
Hagerman Fossil Beds
Hanford Reach
Hohokam Pima
Homestead
Hovenweep
Ironwood Forest
Jewel Cave
John Day Fossil Beds
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks
Katahdin Woods and Waters
Lava Beds
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Marianas Trench
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
Military Working Dog Teams
Mill Springs Battlefield
Misty Fjords
Mojave Trails
Montezuma Castle
Mount Saint Helens
Muir Woods
Natural Bridges
Navajo
Newberry
Northeast
Oregon Caves
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
Organ Pipe Cactus
Pacific Remote Islands
Papahanaumokuakea
Petroglyph
Pipe Spring
Pipestone
Pompeys Pillar
Poverty Point
Prehistoric Trackways
President
Pullman
Rainbow Bridge
Rio Grande Del Norte
Rose Atoll
Russell Cave
Saint Francis Dam
Salinas Pueblo Missions
San Gabriel Mountains
San Juan Islands
Sand to Snow
Santa Rosa
Scotts Bluff
Sonoran Desert
Statue of Liberty
Stonewall
Sunset Crater Volcano
Timpanogos Cave
Tonto
Tule Lake
Tule Springs Fossil Beds
Tuzigoot
Upper Missouri River Breaks
Vermillion Cliffs
Virgin Islands Coral Reef
Waco Mammoth
Walnut Canyon
Wupatki
Yucca House

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authoritydate of national monument statustotal area (km²)privately-owned area (km²)managing agency
(if not NPS) NM AK 1978PP-JC19804,127.2310 0.0000USFS NM NY 1992PP-GB2006 0.0014 0.0000 NM NE 1965CON 1965 12.3748 1.2277 NM AZ 2000PP-WC2000 292.7658 5.5199BLM NM TX 1965CON 1965 5.5481 1.1806 NM AK 1978PP-JC1978 555.1316 0.0000 NM NM 1923PP-WH1923 1.2885 0.1815 NM NM 1916PP-WW1916 136.2846 0.0900 NM NV 2015PP-BO20152,865.2674 17.9599BLM NM UT 2016PP-BO2016 925.7063 0.0000BLM/USFS Women's Equality NM DC 2016PP-BO2016 0.0014 0.0000 NM CA 2015PP-BO20151,339.2100 0.0000USFS/BLM NM AL 2017PP-BO2017 0.0036 0.0000BLM NM VA 1956CON 1956 0.9672 0.0000 NM CO 2015PP-BO2015 87.4607 0.0000BLM/USFS NM VI 1961PP-JK1961 76.9529 0.0000 NM CA 1913PP-WW1913 0.6473 0.0000 NM CA 2000PP-WC2000 35.8471 0.0000BLM NM KY 2013PP-DT2018 1.5383 0 NM AZ 1931PP-HH1931 339.2884339.2884 NM CO 2000PP-WC2000 748.6684 34.9244BLM NM AK 1978PP-JC19782,626.7989 86.4186 NM NM 1916PP-WW1916 3.2085 0.0000 NM CA 2001PP-WC2001 998.8330107.0920BLM NM AZ 1889PP-WW1918 1.9121 0.0000 NM OR 2000PP-WC2000 536.9369 79.9335BLM NM FL 1924PP-CC1924 0.0784 0.0001 NM NY 1946CON 1946 0.0040 0.0000 NM CA 2016PP-BO2016 85.0872 0.0708 NM UT 1933PP-FR1933 24.9068 0.0000 NM CA 2012PP-BO2012 0.4717 0.4292NPS/NCC Young Buffalo Soldiers NM OH 2013PP-BO2013 0.2414 0.0000 NM CO 1970PP-BO2012 19.1173 0.0000USFS NM AZ 1924PP-CC1924 48.6624 0.0095 NM CO 1911PP-WT1911 83.1078 0.0000 NM ID 216.2545 0.0000 NM ID 1924PP-CC20021,106.7676 0.0000BLM NM CA 1911PP-WT1911 3.2383 0.0000 NM WY 1906PP-TR1906 5.4520 0.0012 NM CO-UT1915PP-WW1915 850.9807 18.0710 NM IA 1949PP-HT1949 10.2239 0.0000 NM NM 1987CON 1987 462.7463 16.0447 NM NM 1906PP-TR1906 5.1748 0.9664 NM CO 1969CON 1969 25.4065 1.1331 NM GA 1936CON 1936 1.2357 0.0896 NM FL 1924PP-CC1924 1.2145 0.0065 NMHSMD 1925CON 1939 0.1751 0.0000 NM VA 2011PP-BO2011 1.4857 0.0000 NM CA 2012PP-BO2012 59.3188 BLM NM GA 1924PP-CC1924 22.7559 0.0000 NM NY 1935CON 1935 0.0628 0.0000 NM NM 1954CON 1954 2.9162 0.0000 NM WY 1972CON 1972 33.1761 0.0000 NM AL 2017PP-BO2017 0.0241 0.0000 NM VA 1930CON 1930 2.6433 0.4166 NM MO 1943CON 1943 0.9712 0.0000 NM CA 2000PP-WC20001,427.0268 0.0000USFS NM NM 1907PP-TR1907 2.1575 0.0000 NM NV 2016PP-BO20161,201.6614 0.0000BLM NM NY 2001PP-WC2001 0.0927 0.0020 NM AZ 2000PP-WC20003,398.8414 16.5355BLM NM MN 1951CON 1958 2.8731 0.0000 NM UT 1996PP-WC19964,072.5175 10.0281BLM NM ID 1988CON 1988 17.6085 0.0668 NM WA 2000PP-WC2000 786.9150 0.0000DOE/FWS NM AZ 1972CON 1972 6.8392 6.8392 NM NE 1936CON 1936 0.8517 0.0000 NM CO-UT1923PP-WH1923 3.1765 0.0000 NM AZ 2000PP-WC2000 763.3504 19.5544BLM NM SD 1908PP-TR1908 15.4327 0.0000 NM OR 1974CON 1974 56.9077 1.9081 NM NM 2001PP-WC2001 21.8692 3.0635BLM NM ME 2016PP-BO2016 354.3600 0.0000 NM CA 1925PP-CC1925 188.9575 0.0000 NM MT 1940CON 1991 3.0972 0.0000 MNM Pac 2009PP-GB2009 0.0000 0.0000FWS/NOAA NM MS 2020CON 2020 NM TX 2008CON 2008 0.0 0.0000USAF/AHF NM KY CON 2020 NM AK 1978PP-JC19809,283.7800 0.0000USFS NM CA 2016PP-BO20166,474.9703 0.0000BLM NM AZ 1906PP-TR1906 4.1097 0.0681 NVM WA 1982CON 1982 458.1244 USFS NM CA 1908PP-TR1908 2.2401 0.0000 NM UT 1908PP-TR1908 30.9038 0.0000 NM AZ 1909PP-WT1909 1.4569 0.0000 NVM OR 1990CON 1990 231.9780 USFS Canyons and Seamounts MNM MA 2016PP-BO2016 0.0000 0.0000NOAA/FWS NM OR 1909PP-WT1909 18.4295 0.0000 NM NM 2014PP-BO20142,361.1869 40.1651BLM NM AZ 1937PP-FR19371,338.2503 0.1763 MNM Pac 2009PP-GB2009 31.2984 0.0000FWS MNM HI 1909PP-TR2006 12.9985 0.0000NOAA/FWS/HI NM NM 1990CON 1990 29.1750 0.4506 NM AZ 1923PP-WH1923 0.1619 0.0000 NM MN 1937CON 1937 1.1403 0.0000 NM MT 2001PP-WC2001 0.2064 0.0000BLM NM LA 1988CON 1988 3.6861 2.0061 NM NM 2009CON 2009 21.3674 0.0000BLM Lincoln and Soldiers' HomeNM DC 1973PP-WC2000 0.0093 0.0093AFRH/NTHP NM IL 2015PP-BO2015 0.0016 0.0000 NM UT 1910PP-WT1910 0.6475 0.0000 NM NM 2013PP-BO20131,257.4797116.7639BLM MNM AS 2009PP-GB2009 0.0850 0.0000FWS/NOAA NM AL 1961PP-JK1961 1.2563 0.0000 NM CA 1.4285 0.0000USFS NM NM 1909PP-WT1909 4.3359 0.3262 NM CA 2014PP-BO20141,397.0639 USFS NM WA 2013PP-BO2013 3.9255 0.0000BLM NM CA 2016PP-BO2016 622.9812 0.0000BLM/USFS and San Jacinto MountainsNM CA 2000CON 20001,133.1562263.1954BLM/USFS NM NE 1919PP-WW1919 12.1597 0.1804 NM AZ 2001PP-WC20012,008.8595 24.6858BLM NM NY-NJ1924PP-CC1924 0.2363 0.0000 NM NY 2016PP-BO2016 0.0312 0.0002 NM AZ 1930PP-HH1933 12.3024 0.0000 NM UT 1922PP-WH1933 1.0117 0.0000 NM AZ 1907PP-TR1907 4.5325 0.0000 NM CA 2006PP-GB2019 0.1513 0.0000 NM NV 2014CON 2014 91.6613 0.0000 NM AZ 1939PP-FR1939 3.2856 1.7416 NM MT 2001PP-WC20012,014.6101330.6889BLM NM AZ 2000PP-WC20001,188.5091 2.7640BLM NM VI 2001PP-WC2001 51.4277 0.0000 NM TX 2015PP-BO2015 0.4339 0.0000 NM AZ 1915PP-WW1915 12.9524 1.1244 NM AZ 1924PP-CC1924 143.2661 0.0000 NM CO 1919PP-WW1919 0.1371 0.0000

Note: Monuments are denoted as either national monuments (NM), marine national monuments (MNM), national volcanic monuments (NVM), or national monument and historic shrine (NMHS). Managing agencies include:

the National Park Service (NPS),
Airman Heritage Foundation (AHF),
Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH),
Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
Bureau of Reclaimation (BoR),
Department of Energy (DOE),
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS),
State of Hawaii (HI),
US Air Force (USAF),
US Forestry Service (USFS),
National Chavez Center (NCC),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and
National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP).

A breakdown of the current 125 national monuments by managing agency is:

81 are wholly managed by the NPS,
2 are jointly managed by the NPS and another agency,
22 are wholly managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
7 are wholly managed by the Forest Service (USFS),
5 are jointly managed by the BLM and USFS,
and 8 are managed by other agencies.

Original authority refers to the act creating the park, either act of Congress or Presidential proclaimation under the Antiquities Act. The table below identifies the codes used for original authority and gives counts of the following:

the number of designated monuments that are still national monuments (listed above);
the number of designated monuments no longer monuments but still in the park system in other forms (listed below);
the number of designated monuments that lost NPS status (also listed below); and
the total monuments designated.

designating authority	code	counts
designating authority	code	current NM, NPS	current NM, non-NPS	no longer NM, still NPS unit	no longer NM, not in NPS	total
act of Congress	CON	24	5	10	2	41
proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt	PP-TR	9	0	8	2	19
proclamation by President William Taft	PP-WT	6	0	3	1	10
proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson	PP-WW	8	0	3	3	14
proclamation by President Warren Harding	PP-WH	4	0	3	1	8
proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge	PP-CC	8	0	3	2	13
proclamation by President Herbert Hoover	PP-HH	2	0	7	1	10
proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt	PP-FR	3	0	7	1	11
proclamation by President Harry Truman	PP-HT	1	0	0	0	1
proclamation by President Dwight Eisenhower	PP-DE	0	0	2	0	2
proclamation by President John Kennedy	PP-JK	2	0	0	0	2
proclamation by President Lyndon Johnson	PP-LJ	0	0	1	0	1
proclamation by President Jimmy Carter	PP-JC	2	2	9	2	15
proclamation by President William Clinton	PP-WC	2	16	1	0	19
proclamation by President George W. Bush	PP-GB	2	3	0	0	5
proclamation by President Barack Obama	PP-BO	9	16	4	0	29
proclamation by President Donald Trump	PP-DT	1	0	0	0	1
total by Presidential proclaimation		59	37	51	13	160
grand total		83	41	61	15	201

Another 76 national monuments were reincorporated into other parks or otherwise lost that status, and 7 of the still-existing monuments listed above have had name changes. These include national monuments:

converted to new National Parks of same name	Arches Badlands Biscayne Black Canyon Of Gunnison Bryce Canyon Capitol Reef Carlsbad Cave Channel Islands Congaree Death Valley Gates of the Arctic Glacier Bay Grand Canyon Great Sand Dunes Joshua Tree Katmai Kenai Fjords Kobuk Valley Lake Clark Petrified Forest Pinnacles Saguaro White Sands Wrangell-Saint Elias Zion
incorporated into new National Parks with new name	Cinder Cone NM and Lassen Peak NM became Lassen Volcanic NP Fort Jefferson NM became part of Dry Tortugas NP Lehman Caves NM became part of Great Basin NP Mount Olympus NM became Olympic NP Sieur de Monts NM became Lafayette NP, later renamed Acadia NP
incorporated into existing National Parks	Grand Canyon NM (second NM of that name) and Marble Canyon NM incorporated into Grand Canyon NP Jackson Hole NM incorporated into Grant Teton NP Mukuntuweap NM and Zion NM (second NM of that name) incorporated into Zion NP
converted to National Historic Parks of same name	Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Colonial First State Harpers Ferry Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Homestead Pecos Reconstruction Era Sitka
converted to National Historic Sites of same name	Fort Laramie Honouliuli Minidoka Internment Whitman Mission
converted to National Historic Parks or Sites with new names	Chaco Canyon NM became Chaco Culture NHP Edison Laboratory NM became Thomas Edison NHS Fort Sumner NM became Fort Sumner and Fort Moultrie NHP Kino Missions NM became Tumacacori NHP Mound City Group NM became Hopewell Culture NHP Ocmulgee NM became Ocmulgee Mounds NHP
converted to other parks	Big Hole Battlefield NM became Big Hole National Battlefield Bering Land Bridge NM, Noatak NM, and Yukon-Charley Rivers NM each became National Preserves with the same names Denali NM became Denali National Preserve and part of existing Denali NP Meriwether Lewis NM became part of Natchez Trace Parkway World War II Valor in the Pacific NM (Hawaii portion) became Pearl Harbor NMem
transferred out of NPS (with National Monument status ending)	Becharof NM transferred to FWS Castle Pinckney NM transferred to South Carolina Father Millet Cross NM transferred to New York state Fossil Cycad NM transferred to BLM Holy Cross NM transferred to USFS Lewis and Clark Cavern NM transferred to Montana Old Kasaan NM transferred to USFS Papago Saguaro NM transferred to Arizona Patrick Henry NM deauthorized Santa Rosa Island NM abolished Shoshone Cavern NM transferred to City of Cody, Wyoming Verendrye NM transferred to North Dakota Wheeler NM transferred to USFS Yukon Flats NM transferred to FWS Zuni-Cibola NM reverted to Zuni tribe
name changes	Aztec Ruin NM became Aztec Ruins NM Capulin Mountain NM became Capulin Volcano NM Casa Grande NM became Casa Grande Ruins NM Fort Marion NM became Castillo de San Marcos NM Gran Quivira NM became Salinas Pueblo Missions NM Northwestern Hawaiian Islands MNM became Papahanaumokuakea MNM Sunset Crater NM became Sunset Crater Volcano NM World War II Valor in the Pacific NM (California portion) became Tule Lake NM

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