Black Hawk
Black Hawk and Blackhawk may refer to:
Birds
- Black Hawks, several birds of prey in the genus Buteogallus
- Common black hawk, Buteogallus anthracinus
- Mangrove black hawk, Buteogallus (anthracinus) subtilis – formerly considered a distinct species, but now considered a subspecies.
- Cuban black hawk, Buteogallus gundlachii – formerly included in B. anthracinus
- Great black hawk, Buteogallus urubitinga
- Common black hawk, Buteogallus anthracinus
Places in the United States
Geography
- Blackhawk, California, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
- Black Hawk, Colorado, a Home Rule Municipality
- Blackhawk, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Blackhawk, Indiana, an unincorporated town
- Black Hawk County, Iowa
- Black Hawk Lake (Sac County, Iowa), a glacial lake
- Black Hawk Purchase, an historical region of Iowa
- Black Hawk, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Black Hawk, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
- Black Hawk, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
- Blackhawk, South Dakota, an unincorporated census-designated place
- Blackhawk, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Black Hawk, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Other locations
- Black Hawk Bridge, a bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin
- Black Hawk College, Moline, Illinois
People
- Black Hawk (Sauk leader) (1767–1838), Sauk and Fox leader
- Antonga Black Hawk (c. 1830–1870), Ute leader known to whites as "Black Hawk"
- Black Hawk (artist) (c. 1832–c. 1890), Sans Arc Lakota artist
- Black Hawk (lacrosse), Native American lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Olympics for Canada
Arts and entertainment
Comics
- Blackhawk (DC 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 (Tornado), a Tornado/2000 AD comic book character
- Blackhawks (DC Comics), a comic book team of elite government operatives
Literature
- Blackhawks, a type of sentient biological spaceship in Peter F. Hamilton's fictional The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999)
Music
- Blackhawk (band), a country music band
- Blackhawk (album), the band's debut album
Videogames
- Blackthorne, a 1994 video game known as "Blackhawk" in Europe
Businesses
- Black Hawk (nightclub), a jazz venue once located in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
- Black Hawk Hotel, Cedar Falls, Iowa, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Blackhawk (restaurant), a restaurant and supper club in Chicago from 1920–1984 and Wheeling from 1969–2009
- Blackhawk (tools), a brand of the Stanley Works
- Blackhawk Films, a distributor of vintage short-subject films and newsreels
- Hotel Blackhawk, Davenport, Iowa, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Blackhawk Network Holdings, American corporation on the NASDAQ.
In the military
- Black Hawk War (1832), named after the Sauk leader
- Black Hawk War (1865–1872), named after Antonga Black Hawk
- Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk, a prototype attack helicopter
- Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, a US Army utility helicopter
- USS Black Hawk, the name of four United States vessels
- HM-15 "Blackhawks", a U.S. Navy helicopter squadron
- 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq (different from Black Hawk Down)
Sports
- Atlanta Blackhawks, an American soccer team
- Chicago Blackhawks, a team in the National Hockey League
- Iowa Blackhawks, an indoor football team in the USA
- Plattling Black Hawks, an American football club from Plattling, Germany
- Waterloo Black Hawks, a junior hockey team in the USA
- San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, a soccer team in the USA
- Atlanta Hawks, previously known as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks
Transportation
- Black Hawk (Amtrak train), a passenger train between Chicago and Dubuque, Iowa
- Black Hawk (CB&Q train), a passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
- Blackhawk (automobile), an automobile manufactured in 1929 and 1930 by the Stutz Motor Car Company in Indianapolis
- Black Hawk (steamboat 1850), which operated in California and Oregon
- Buick Blackhawk, a retro concept 2+2 convertible built by Buick in 2001
- Stutz Blackhawk, a car manufactured from 1971 through 1987 named for the earlier Stutz car
- Blackhawk, the name of a Carr Special racing aircraft of the 1930s
Other uses
- Black Hawk Statue (1911), a statue originally named The Eternal Indian by sculptor Lorado Taft
- The Ruger Blackhawk, a single-action revolver
- Black Hawk (horse), a Morgan horse
See also
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