Sullys Hill National Game Preserve (N.D.)
Enlarge text Shrink text
Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
Sullys Hill National Game Preserve (N.D.)
Other forms of name
Sullys Hill National Park (N.D.)
Sullys Hill Park (N.D.)
Coordinates
-98.94166667 -98.94166667 48 48 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Game reserves North Dakota
National parks and reserves North Dakota
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q7636470
Library of congress:
sh2012000293
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 2009376603: Comprehensive conservation plan : Sullys Hill National Game Preserve, 2008:p. 1 (located in Benson Co. near the town of Fort Totten, North Dakota)
- GNIS, Jan. 23, 2012(Sullys Hill National Game Preserve; park; Benson Co., ND; 47°59ʹ26ʺN 098°58ʹ16ʺW
- Pruning the parks: North Dakota's Sullys Hill National Park (1904-1931). National Parks Traveler, Apr. 27, 2010, web article accessed Oct. 23, 2013(on June 2, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive proclamation creating Sullys Hill Park (known later as Sullys Hill National Park); on Mar. 3, 1931, Congress delisted Sullys Hill National Park and transferred the land to the Department of Agriculture to be re-purposed as a big game preserve; as [Congress] spelled out in the enabling legislation for the new preserve (16 U.S.C. 674a : US Code - Section 674A: Sullys Hill National Park; transfer of control; change of name to Sullys Hill National Game Preserve ...): the Secretary of the Interior shall administer ... the Sullys Hill National Game Preserve and shall embrace within its boundaries the lands described in the proclamation of June 2, 1904, establishing Sullys Hill Park ...)
- Web. geog., 3rd ed.(Sullys Hill, former national park, Benson co., NE North Dakota ...; since c. 1932 a game preserve ...)
- Sullys Hill National Game Preserve web site, Nov. 15, 2013:History [section] (President Theodore Roosevelt designated Sullys Hill originally as a National Park in 1904; on Mar. 3, 1931, Congress transferred Sullys Hill to the National Wildlife Refuge System where it would be maintained as a "big game preserve ...")
Wikipedia description:
White Horse Hill National Game Preserve (Dakota: Šúŋkawakháŋ Ská Pahá, formerly known as Sullys Hill National Game Preserve) is a National Wildlife Refuge and nature center located on the shore of Devils Lake in Benson County, North Dakota, within the Spirit Lake Tribe reservation.
Read more on Wikipedia >