Black Lake is a lake located about southwest of
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region.
European ...
. It has two outflows; the
Black River, which drains southwest into the
Chehalis River and thence to
Gray's Harbor and the
Pacific Ocean
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, and
Percival Creek, which drains northeast into
Capitol Lake
Capitol Lake is a 3 kilometer (1.9 mile) long, artificial lake at the mouth of Deschutes River in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington. The Olympia Brewery sits on Capitol Lake in Tumwater, just downstream from where the Tumwater Falls meet the artifici ...
and thence into
Puget Sound
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.
Black Lake was so named on account of the dark character of its water. The nearby community of
Belmore lies east of the lake.
During the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1940
USA censuses, there was a Black Lake precinct in Thurston county. It does not appear as a place category in the
1930 USA census.
References
Lakes of Thurston County, Washington
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