Black Hawk

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Black Hawk (or Blackhawk, Blackhawks) may refer to:

Contents 1 Animals 2 People 3 Places 4 Lakes 5 Vehicles 6 Sports 7 Media & other uses

[edit] Animals

• The Common Black Hawk, a bird of prey

[edit] People

• Black Hawk (chief), a Sauk and Fox leader of the 19th century
  • The Black Hawk War, named after him.
• Black Hawk (artist), a Sans Arc Lakota artist of the 19th century
• Antonga Black Hawk, a Ute leader known to whites as "Black Hawk"
  • Black Hawk War (Utah) of the 1860s, an Indian War named after him

[edit] Places

• Blackhawk, California, in Contra Costa County
• Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara, California, a census-designated place that includes Blackhawk in Contra Costa County
• Black Hawk, Colorado
• Blackhawk, Mississippi
• Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Black Hawk Bridge, a bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin
• Black Hawk College, located in Moline, Illinois
• Black Hawk Purchase, a historical region of Iowa

[edit] Lakes

• Black Hawk Lake (Madera County, California), a reservoir in Madera County, California
• Black Hawk Lake (Tuolumne County, California), a lake in Tuolumne County, California
• Black Hawk Lake (Sac County, Iowa), a glacial lake in Sac County, Iowa
• Black Hawk Lake (Iowa County, Wisconsin), a glacial lake in Iowa County, Wisconsin

[edit] Vehicles

• USS Black Hawk, the name of four United States vessels
• The Black Hawk (Amtrak), a passenger train between Chicago and Dubuque, Iowa
• Two types of helicopters manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft:
  • Sikorsky S-67 "Blackhawk", an attack helicopter
  • UH-60 Black Hawk, a utility helicopter
• Stutz Blackhawk, a make of car

[edit] Sports

• Chicago Blackhawks, a team in the National Hockey League
• San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, a soccer team in the USA
• The Atlanta Hawks, previously known as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks

[edit] Media & other uses

• Blackhawk (comics), an aviator comic book hero and leader of a team named Blackhawks
  • Blackhawk (radio), a 1950 ABC radio series based on the comic book
  • Blackhawk (serial), a 1952 Columbia serial based on the comic book
• Blackhawk (UK comic), a Tornado/2000 AD comic book character
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, a book by Mark Bowden
  • Black Hawk Down (film), a Ridley Scott movie based on the Mark Bowden book
• Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, a videogame
• BlackHawk (band), a country music band
  • Blackhawk (album), the band's debut album
• Black Hawk Statue, a statue originally named The Eternal Indian by sculptor Lorado Taft
• Blackthorne, a video game known as "Blackhawk" in Europe
• The Black Hawk (nightclub), a jazz venue once located in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
• Blackhawk Network, a worldwide giftcard distribution network
• The Ruger Blackhawk, a single action revolver
• Blackhawks are a type of sentient biological spaceship in Peter F. Hamilton's fictional Night's Dawn trilogy.
• Was mentioned in the song Spike by The Network on their album Moneymoney2020.