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State forest
A state forest is a forest owned and managed by a state, typically for timber production, recreation, wildlife habitat, watershed protection, and education, distinct from federal national forests.
State park
State park: a natural, recreational, or historical protected area managed by a state-level government, chiefly in the United States. Over 5,000 units versus fewer than 500 national parks; movement organized at the 1921 Mather conference; earliest surviving example is New York's Niagara Falls (1885).
State parks of the Western United States
State parks of the Western United States are protected areas managed by individual western state governments, holding 65 percent of the nation's state park acreage with 18 percent of its population.
Statio Bilachiniensis
Statio Bilachiniensis, also Bilachinensis, was a Roman customs station at Camporosso in the Val Canale near Tarvisio, on the Aquileia–Virunum road at the entry to Noricum, part of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici, attested by a 1910 inscription and a mithraeum.
Statio Caesariana
Statio Caesariana, a Roman road station in Lucania, southern Italy, listed in the Antonine Itinerary (ItAnt 110.3) and tentatively placed near Buonabitacolo; modern scholarship argues the itinerary misplaced it on the inland road.
Statue of Edward Colston
Statue of Edward Colston: bronze monument by John Cassidy unveiled in Bristol on 13 November 1895 honoring the slave trader and philanthropist; toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters on 7 June 2020, thrown into Bristol Harbour, and now displayed horizontally at M Shed museum.
Statue of Equality (Ramanuja)
The Statue of Equality is a 216-foot seated statue of the 11th-century Vaishnava philosopher Ramanujacharya at Muchintal near Hyderabad, India, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2022.
Statue of Liberty National Monument
Statue of Liberty National Monument is a US National Park Service unit in New York Harbor protecting the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Established 1924, NPS-administered since 1933, ferry-only access, 3.7 million visitors in 2023.
Statue of Unity
The Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Gujarat, is the world's tallest statue at 182 m, depicting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel; designed by Ram V. Sutar, built by Larsen & Toubro with Arup, inaugurated 31 October 2018.
Statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton
Statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton, the Tyrannicides: bronze groups by Antenor (510 BC) and Kritios and Nesiotes (477/6 BC) in the Athenian Agora, known from Roman marble copies like the Naples group.
Statulae
Statulae (Statule), Roman mansio on the Via Valeria in Paeligni territory, Abruzzo, Italy; attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana 7 miles from Corfinium, identified at La Statura near Goriano Sicoli, with a 1903 milestone of Magnentius at 90 miles from Rome.
Stavns Fjord and adjacent waters
Stavns Fjord and adjacent waters is a shallow coastal wetland on the Danish island of Samsø, a Ramsar site important for breeding cormorants and eiders.
Ste-Lucie
Ste-Lucie (Sainte-Lucie, Île de Sainte-Lucie) is a limestone island and peninsula at Port-la-Nouvelle, Aude, France, quarried since Roman times for the pierre de Sainte-Lucie used in Narbo Martius, and now a 825-hectare regional nature reserve created in 2009.
Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards
Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards: UNESCO World Heritage serial property (2016) of 28 sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia protecting medieval limestone tombstones, or stećci, used by all three medieval Christian communities from the 12th to 16th centuries.
Steel Vengeance
Steel Vengeance is a Rocky Mountain Construction hyper-hybrid roller coaster at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, opened May 5, 2018 on the former Mean Streak's structure; 205 ft, 74 mph, 5,740 ft, 4 inversions, record airtime.
Stein
Stein (Netherlands), a Limburg municipality on the Meuse, is a major archaeological landscape: Bandkeramik farms from about 5300 BC, a unique Neolithic grave chamber of circa 3400 BC, a Roman villa of about 30 x 48 m excavated by Beckers and Remouchamps, and the Archeologisch Museum Stein.
Steinkirchen
Steinkirchen, several German places named for a stone church. Best documented: Stephansposching (Bavaria), Roman Danube-limes fortlet (100-3rd century CE) and early medieval fortified church; also villages in Brandenburg and Upper Bavaria.
Stelida
Stelida (Στελίδα) is a chert hill on northwest Naxos, Greece, a prehistoric quarry and tool workshop used from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic (about 250,000–7000 BC), the earliest site in the central Aegean, with a Minoan-type peak sanctuary (1600–1550 BC).
Stephen Mather
Stephen Tyng Mather (1867-1930), borax industrialist and first director of the National Park Service (May 1917-January 1929), built the campaign that created the NPS in 1916 and funded parks from his fortune.
Stepushka
Stepushka (Степушка) is a Bulan-Koby culture burial ground of the 3rd–5th century AD in Ongudai District, Altai Republic, on the Ursul River, excavated in 2010 as Stepushka-1 and Stepushka-2 with over 80 burial and ritual structures.
Stifone
Stifone: village of about 40 inhabitants in Narni municipality, Umbria, on the Nera river; ancient Roman river port with a shipyard, medieval mills, and Italy's first central-Italian hydroelectric plant (1892, Aldo Netti).
Stillfried
Stillfried an der March: Late Bronze Age Urnfield hillfort in Lower Austria, 23 ha rampart enclosure on the Amber Road, known for grain storage pits and deviant human and animal depositions, with Roman and medieval occupation.
Stoa Poikile
The Stoa Poikile, or Painted Porch, was a fifth-century BC painted colonnade on the northwest side of the Athenian Agora that gave the philosophy of Stoicism its name.
Stoke Hill
Stoke Hill: name shared by an Exeter, Devon hill with the scheduled Stoke Hill Camp Iron Age hillfort, a listed-building street in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, an Ipswich rail tunnel site, and an Oundle terrace.
Stolperstein
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are Gunter Demnig's brass-topped 10 cm concrete cubes set in sidewalks before Nazi victims' last homes; first laid 1992 in Cologne, over 116,000 stones in 31 European countries.
Stolpersteine
Stolpersteine are small brass-plated concrete blocks set into pavement at victims' last homes, laid by artist Gunter Demnig since 1992 in over 1,860 European municipalities.
Stone circle
Stone circle: prehistoric ring of standing stones of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland; up to 1,300 known; built for gathering and ritual, not defense; includes Stonehenge, Avebury, recumbent circles.
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Stone Circles of Senegambia: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2006) of four laterite stone-circle groups, Sine Ngayène, Wanar, Wassu, Kerbatch, along the River Gambia in Senegal and The Gambia, over 1,000 funerary monuments dating roughly 3rd century BC to 16th century AD.
Stone City sites
石头城遗址 names two major Chinese sites: Nanjing's Six Dynasties Stone City, founded by Sun Quan in 212 CE and confirmed at Qingliangshan by excavations, and the Jin-to-Qing Tashkurgan Stone City in Xinjiang, a 2001 national key cultural relics protection unit.
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, Georgia: world's largest exposed granite mass near Atlanta, site of the giant Confederate Memorial Carving (Davis, Lee, Jackson, 1915–1972), Stone Mountain Park, and the 1915 KKK rebirth.