The Black Hills are a small range of hills in
Thurston Thurston may refer to:
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and
Grays Harbor
Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state, in the United States. It is a ria, which formed at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels flooded the ...
counties of
Washington
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. 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 Olymp ...
, however, the line parent of the Black Hills is Rock Peak, in the Olympic Mountains.
The tallest peak in the range is
Capitol Peak with a height.
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 in Washington, used for both commercial logging operations and recreation. The forest, containing the Black Hills, is surrounded by various preserves and wildlif ...
has roughly the same boundaries as the Black Hills.
The high school
A.G. West Black Hills,
Tumwater, Washington
Tumwater is a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States. The population was 25,350 at the 2020 census. The city is situated near where the Deschutes River enters Budd Inlet, the southernmost point of Puget Sound; it also borders the s ...
, is named for the hills, as is the local soccer club the
Blackhills Football Club. Capital Medical Center on the west side of Olympia was named Black Hills Community Hospital from its opening in 1985 until 1991.
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Hills of Washington (state)
Landforms of Grays Harbor County, Washington
Landforms of Thurston County, Washington
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