Devils Lake, North Dakota For other things titled Devils Lake, see Devils Lake .
Devils Lake, North Dakota Downtown Devils Lake Downtown Devils Lake Location of Devils Lake, North Dakota Location of Devils Lake, North Dakota State North Dakota Website City of Devils Lake website Devils Lake is a town/city in Ramsey County, North Dakota, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Ramsey County. The populace was 7,141 at the 2010 census. It is titled after the close-by body of water, Devils Lake.
The first home in Devils Lake was assembled in 1882.
The small-town paper is the Devils Lake Journal.
Devils Lake Municipal Airport serves the city.
Devils Lake is home to Lake Region State College and the North Dakota School for the Deaf.
The present site of Devils Lake was historically territory of the Sioux or Lakota.
The Sioux were relocated to the Spirit Lake Reservation.
The name "Devils Lake" is a calque of the Sioux phrase mni wak'ae (literally: spirit water), which is also reflected in the names of the Spirit Lake Tribe and the close-by town of Minnewaukan.
The Sioux called the lake mni wak'ae chante, which separately translate as mni (water), wak'ae (spirit), and chante (bad).
Early European-American pioneer thought this meant "Bad Spirit Lake", or "Devils Lake." The "bad" referred to the high salinity of the lake, making it unfit to drink, and "spirit" meant the mirages often seen athwart the water.
The Christian concept of the devil was not present in the Sioux religion. When the village was incorporated in 1884, the name was changed to City of Devils Lake and then shortened to Devils Lake. A reconstructionof increased rainfall, beginning in the 1990s and unprecedented in the history of the state, caused the close-by lake, which has no natural outlet, to rise.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.51 square miles (16.86 km2), of which, 6.50 square miles (16.83 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Like all of North Dakota, Devils Lake has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb) with very cold winters with incessant light snowfall, and warm to very warm, wetter summers with most precipitation from convective thunderstorms.
During the 1936 North American cold wave, the town was one of the coldest places south of the Canada US border, averaging 21 F or 29.4 C for the five weeks ending February 21, 1936 (though at a different site from that now in use).
On average 53.4 evenings fall to or below 0 F or 17.8 C, 104.1 days fail to top freezing, and 184.5 evenings fall below 32 F or 0 C.
Climate data for Devils Lake, North Dakota (1971-2000, extremes 1948-2001) The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 82.9% White, 0.5% African American, 12.5% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.3% from other competitions, and 3.4% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,229 homeholds of which 26.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.0% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 47.0% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.80.
The median age in the town/city was 40.4 years.
21.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 10.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.3% were from 25 to 44; 26.1% were from 45 to 64; and 19.2% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the 2000 Census, there were 7,222 citizens , 3,127 homeholds, and 1,773 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 89.23% White, 0.22% African American, 7.84% Native American, 0.28% Asian, 0.21% from other competitions, and 2.23% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,127 homeholds out of which 27.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.2% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 43.3% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.87.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town/city of Devils Lake is served by Devils Lake Public Schools.
This fitness operates Sweetwater Elementary School, Prairie View Elementary School, Minnie H Elementary School, Central Middle School, and Devils Lake High School.
Joseph's Catholic School, is also positioned in Devils Lake.
Lake Region State College Devils Lake Storm of North Dakota American Legion Baseball Devils Lake Firebirds Devils Lake Journal 8 WDAZ (8.1 ABC, 8.2 The CW, 8.3 Weather) - digital only - licensed with news agency in Devils Lake, but based in Grand Forks 90.7 KABU (Tribal radio - Spirit Lake Indian Reservation) nationwide passenger rail system, serves Devils Lake, operating its Empire Builder daily in both directions between Chicago and Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
Sky - West Air Lines also operates two flights daily to the Devils Lake Municipal Airport from Denver International Airport.
Devils Lake Town and Country Club Devils Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board https://dlbasin.com Guy, Governor of North Dakota Ralph Maxwell, North Dakota state court judge and athlete Devils Lake was a featured locale in a fourth-season episode of the prominent Syfy series Warehouse 13 titled "Personal Effects," though its establishing shot had little in common with town's actual topography and more closely resembled the North Dakota badlands.
Devils Lake is the site of a youth camp for Evangelical Christians in the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp.
North Dakota Place Names.
Origins of North Dakota place names.
Bismarck, North Dakota: Bismarck Tribune, 1966.
Dave Kolpack, "North Dakota lake swallows territory and buildings", Denver Post, September 22, 2010.
"DEVILS LAKE KDLR (022329) Climatography of the United States No.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Devils Lake, North Dakota.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Devils Lake.
City of Devils Lake official website Devils Lake Chamber of Commerce Mother Nature In Charge: Devils Lake The Dilemma Documentary produced by Prairie Public Television A bicentennial history of Devils Lake, North Dakota (1976) from the Digital Horizons website Devils Lake's seventy-five years :official souvenir program (1957) from the Digital Horizons website Municipalities and communities of Ramsey County, North Dakota, United States State of North Dakota
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