Black Hills High School

Belmore is an unincorporated community in Thurston County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The community lies east of nearby Black Lake and is approximately southwest of Tumwater.

Trosper Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of Washington. The lake has a surface area of 17 acres (6.9 ha) and reaches a depth of 12 feet (3.7 m).Trosper Lake was named after John Trosper, a pioneer citizen.

Tumwater High School is a secondary school in Tumwater, Washington serving grades 9–12 in Thurston County. It is one of two comprehensive high schools in the Tumwater School District. Tumwater High School generally draws students from the portions of the Tumwater School District east of Interstate 5 and the Littlerock area west of I-5. Tumwater High School caters to its student population by having an extended parking lot, called "overflow", which allows for some ease whilst parking. During bus arrival, there are usual delays to the ability to park.

Black Lake is a lake located about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Olympia, Washington. It has two outflows; the Black River, which drains southwest into the Chehalis River and thence to Gray's Harbor and the Pacific Ocean, and Percival Creek, which drains northeast into Capitol Lake and thence into Puget Sound. Black Lake was so named on account of the dark character of its water. The nearby community of Belmore lies east of the lake.

Barnes Lake is a private lake in the U.S. state of Washington.Barnes Lake has the name of Nelson Barnes, the proprietor of a slaughterhouse at the lakeside.

KUOW (1340 AM, "News & Information") is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Tumwater, Washington, United States, the station is currently owned by the University of Washington and operated by KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio. It features programming from American Public Media, National Public Radio, and Public Radio International. The station is currently a simulcast of sister station KUOW-FM.

The Washington State Library is a government agency that operates public libraries in Washington state's prisons and mental hospitals, and maintains collections related to the state government. Based in Tumwater, it is a service of the Washington Secretary of State and was founded in 1853 as the Washington Territorial Library. The library has a collection of 2.25 million physical items and other online resources available to residents of the state.

KOWA-LP (106.5 FM) was a radio station licensed to Olympia, Washington, United States. The station was last owned by Media Island International, a not for profit public library and resource and networking center. KOWA-LP was a member of the Pacifica Radio Network. KOWA 106.5 LP FM created their own independent media for broadcast on other stations such as this interview with the 22nd Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravanistas in Olympia, Washington on July 6, 2011 and this talk about the Attacks on LGBTQ Community & Unions In Honduras on March 8, 2013. The Federal Communications Commission cancelled KOWA-LP's license on October 18, 2021.

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 state capital of Olympia to the north. Tumwater is the oldest permanent Anglo-American settlement on Puget Sound.

South Puget Sound Community College is a public community college in southwest Olympia, Washington. The college contains 125 acres (0.51 km2) and is serving about 5,300 full and part-time students as of the fall 2020 quarter.The school offers transfer associate degree programs, transition studies program, professional technical programs, and corporate and continuing education programs. As of fall 2020, SPSCC offers 78 degrees and certificates in 30 areas. It also offers short-term study abroad program designed by the Washington State Community College Consortium for Study Abroad (WCCCSA). In 2021, SPSCC was named among the nations' 150 best community colleges by the Aspen Institute, which is determined by student outcomes in learning, completion rates, employments rates and incomes, and equity.

Tumwater Methodist Church is a historic church at 219 W. B Street in Tumwater, Washington. It was built in 1872 and added to the National Register in 1984. When it was built it was one of two churches in Tumwater, (the other being Baptist); initially the minister rode circuit preaching and serving much of Thurston County over the course of the week. The Olympia Methodist Church helped to support the Tumwater church's formation. In the 1930s the adjacent parsonage was sold and a two-story addition was built uphill from the original church which added a social hall, classrooms, and plumbing. The building served as the location of Tumwater Methodist Church for almost 100 years until they sold the property to Unitarians in the 1960s, who worshiped there it until outgrowing it and transferring ownership, in the early 1990s, to a Quaker congregation. The building currently hosts St. James' Christian Episcopal Church. This congregation worships according to the Book of Common Prayer (1928) edition. Often considered a High Church tradition, which is found in many Anglo-Catholic parishes.

The Tumwater Falls are a series of cascades on the Deschutes River in Tumwater, Washington, United States. They are located near where the river empties into Budd Inlet, a southerly arm of Puget Sound in Olympia.