Devils Lake North Dakota

Devils Lake North Dakota:According to U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16 km2). 6.2 square miles (16 km 2) of it is land and 0.16% water.
Devils Lake is a city in Ramsey County, North Dakota. It is the county Ramsey County.  The population of 7,222 at the 2000 census. It is named after the nearby lake, Devils Lake. The first house in Devils Lake was built in 1882. Were surveyed in 1883 and named Creelsburg then Creel City, after the surveyor, Heber M. Creel. In 1884 it was renamed to Devils Lake.
Local paper Devils Lake Journal. Devils Lake Municipal Airport serves the city. Devils Lake is home to Lake Region State College and North Dakota School for the Deaf.
This site was originally Devils Lake Sioux land and indigenous people have been resettled in the Spirit Lake Reservation. The name “Devils Lake” is a carbon copy of the phrase Sioux MNI wak’áŋ (literally: the spiritual water),  is also reflected in the names of Spirit Lake Tribe and the nearby city of Minnewaukan.
Full name soo gave Lake MNI wak’áŋ Chante, which individually translated into MNI (water), wak’áŋ (spirit), and Chante (bad). Early white settlers moved into “Bad Spirit Lake”, or “Devils Lake”. Instead, bad referred to the high salinity of the lake, making it unfit for drinking, and “spirit” refers to mirages are often seen through the water, since the Christian concept of the devil was not in the religion of the Su.
Mail was founded here 15 November 1882 and originally named Creelsburg.   It was founded by Lt. Heber M. Creel, a graduate of West Point and topgraphical engineer, stationed at nearby Fort Totten. After retiring from the U.S. Army, he was examined and found Townsite. Environmental Creel Township is named for him. Its name was changed to Creel and the city extended the Great Northern Railway. When the village was incorporated in 1884, the name was changed to City Devils Lake, and then shortened to Devils Lake.
Period increased by rain since 1990, and unprecedented in the history of the state caused by a number of lake, which has no natural outlet, to rise. Area four times, and higher water has led the movement or destruction of more than 400 homes.