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DEVILS LAKE, a city of North Dakota, U.S.A., on Devils Lake, 85m. W. by N. of Grand Forks; the county-seat of Ramsey county. It is on Federal highway 2, and is served by the Farmers Grain and Shipping Company, the Great Northern and the Soo Line railways. Population in 193o Federal census was 5,451. The city has creameries, flour-mills and railroad shops. It is the seat of the State school for the deaf. The State university has a biological station on the lake, and just south of the lake is Sully's Hill national park, an important wild-animal preserve, with historic associations. Devils Lake was settled in 188o and incorporated in 1887.

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