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Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the fifth longest cave in the world and second longest cave in the United States, with 220.01 miles (354.07 km) of mapped passageways as of May 2024. [3] [4] [5] It is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Custer in Black Hills of South Dakota.
Mammoth Cave National Park, also a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Longest cave in the world. 2 Jewel Cave: 353.69 km (219.8 mi) [4] [5] near Custer, South Dakota: Jewel Cave National Monument: 3 Wind Cave: 266.8 km (165.8 mi) [6]
Kazumura Cave, Hawaii – Not only the world's most extensive lava tube, but at 65.5 kilometres (40.7 mi), it has the greatest linear extent of any cave known. [11] Kuna Caves – Idaho; Lava Beds National Monument – California; Newberry National Volcanic Monument – Oregon Arnold Lava Tube System; Boyd Cave – Oregon; Horse Lava Tube ...
Bat Cave; Carter Caves State Park; Cascade Caverns; Colossal Cavern; Diamond Caverns; Eleven Jones Cave; Fisher Ridge Cave System; Glover's Cave; Goochland Cave; Great Onyx Cave; Great Saltpetre Cave; Horse Cave also known as "Hidden River Cave" Lost River Cave; Mammoth Cave; Martin Ridge Cave System; Oligo-Nunk Cave System
On August 24, 2000, a motorist, later identified as Janice Stevenson of Newcastle, Wyoming, stopped to use the bathroom on the side of U.S. Highway 16 near Jasper Cave Road, just west of Jewel Cave. She lit a cigarette and threw the lit match on the ground, which ignited the grass. Reportedly, Stevenson noticed the fire and drove away. [4]
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Bellflower city limit at Rose Street: Bellflower–Downey city limit at Gardendale Street 1934: current Currently being relinquished to the City of Bellflower; Also, SR 164 (north of Gallatin Road) is signed as SR 19 along Rosemead Boulevard SR 20: 211.882 [b] 340.991 SR 1 in Fort Bragg: I-80 near Emigrant Gap: 1934: current SR 21: 23.6: 38.0
A 1938 Works Progress Administration poster for Fort Marion National Monument, now called Castillo de San Marcos. The United States has 136 protected areas known as national monuments. The president of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, and the United States Congress can do so by