Capitol Peak (Thurston County)

KXXO (96.1 FM, "KXXO Mixx 96.1") is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Olympia, Washington, United States, it serves the Tacoma, Olympia, Puyallup, Centralia, Chehalis, and Shelton area. The station is currently owned by 3 Cities.

KZTM (102.9 FM) is a Regional Mexican radio station serving the Tacoma and Olympia, Washington area. Owned and operated by Bustos Media, through licensee Bustos Media Holdings, LLC, the station is licensed to McKenna, Washington. The transmitter site is in Capitol State Forest near Olympia, while its studios are located in Kent.

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, however, the line parent of the Black Hills is Rock Peak, in the Olympic Mountains. 2,664-foot (812 m) 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 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. Capital Medical Center on the west side of Olympia was named Black Hills Community Hospital from its opening in 1985 until 1991.

Larch Mountain is a 2,664-foot (812 m) summit in the Black Hills range of Thurston County, Washington state. It is one of the two highest peaks in the Black Hills, along with Capitol Peak, and preceding 2,356-foot (718 m) Rock Candy Mountain. It is the most prominent peak in Thurston County.

Noski Creek is a stream in Thurston County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a tributary to Waddell Creek.A variant name is "Noschka Creek". The creek was named after a pioneer who settled near it in the 1880s.

The Chehalis Gap is a gap in the Coast Range of Washington state between the southernmost foothills of the Olympic Mountains called the Satsop Hills, and the Willapa Hills.The gap is a major geographic feature of the northwestern United States. Other geographic features in the gap include Chehalis River, Grays Harbor, and Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge in its estuary. U.S. Route 12 runs through the gap from Elma near Capitol State Forest to Aberdeen on Grays Harbor near the coast, paralleled by the former U.S. Route 410 and Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad.

Mill Creek is a stream in Thurston County, Washington. It is a tributary of Mima Creek.Mill Creek was named for a sawmill along its course.

Bordeaux is a ghost town in Thurston County, in the U.S. state of Washington.

Lake Lucinda is a lake in the U.S. state of Washington. It is impounded by the Lake Lucinda Dam.Lake Lucinda took its name from a nearby residential complex.

Mima mounds are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment that is an overthickened A horizon. These mounds range in diameter from 3 to more than 50 m; in height 30 cm to greater than 2 m; and in density from several to greater than 50 mounds per hectare, at times forming conspicuous natural patterns. Mima mounds can be seen at the Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve in Washington state. "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along" or "downstream".Theories for the origin of Mima mounds include burrowing by pocket gophers; accumulation of wind-blown (aeolian) sediments around vegetation to form coppice dunes or nebkhas; seismic ground shaking by major earthquakes, though none have been observed to form Mima mounds; and shrinking and swelling of clays in hog-wallow or gilgai landforms. Though the definitive Mima mounds are common in North America, it has not been shown that all North American mounds result from the same causes. Superficially similar phenomena occur on all continents, and the proposed causal factors do not occur in all regions that have been studied. Nor is it clear that all such mounds really are the same, either physically or functionally; for example, the so-called fairy circles of Southern Africa tend to be less mound-like and occur in different climatic and ecological conditions from Mima mounds. Furthermore, it has been argued that the possibly distinct heuweltjies of the South Western Cape region of South Africa are of an origin far different from either.

Beatty Creek is a stream in Thurston County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a tributary of McLane Creek.Beatty Creek has the name of Daniel C. Beatty, a pioneer settler.

Delphi is an unincorporated community in Thurston County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The community is located approximately west of Tumwater and Black Lake. The town of Littlerock lies to the south.