The Black Hills are a small range of hills in
Thurston and
Grays Harbor counties of
Washington. They are widely considered a subset of the
Willapa Hills
The Willapa Hills is a geologic, physiographic, and geographic region in southwest Washington. When described as a physiographical province, the Willapa Hills are bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Columbia River to the south, the Ol ...
, however, the line parent of the Black Hills is Rock Peak, in the Olympic Mountains.
Capitol Peak is the highest peak in the range.
The Black Hills takes its name from the
Black River. A former variant name was "Black Mountains".
The
Capitol State Forest
The Capitol State Forest is a state forest in Thurston and Grays Harbor counties of the U.S. state of Washington. It includes part of the unusual Mima Mounds geologic feature.
The Capitol State Forest is managed by Washington State Department ...
has roughly the same boundaries as the Black Hills.
The high school
A.G. West Black Hills,
Tumwater, Washington, is named for the hills, as is the local soccer club the
Blackhills Football Club
Lhanbryde (Gaelic: ''Lann Brìghde'') is a village that lies east of Elgin in Moray, Scotland. Previously bisected by the A96, it was bypassed in the early 1990s and now lies to the north of this busy trunk road. It had a population of 1,88 ...
. Capital Medical Center on the west side of Olympia was named Black Hills Community Hospital from its opening in 1985 until 1991.
About Capital Medical Center – our history
Multicare, accessed November 28, 2022
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Hills of Washington (state)
Landforms of Grays Harbor County, Washington
Landforms of Thurston County, Washington
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