Black Lake
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About
Black Lake is a lake located 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Olympia, Washington. With a surface area of 570 acres (2.3 km2) and total volume of 11,000 acre-feet (14,000,000 m3), it is one of the largest lakes in Thurston County.
The lake has two outflows: via the Black River, which drains southwest into the Chehalis River, thence to Gray's Harbor and the Pacific Ocean; and Percival Creek, which drains northeast into Capitol Lake, Budd Inlet and Puget Sound.
The lake's mean depth is 19 feet (5.8 m), with a maximum depth of 29 feet (8.8 m), and it has approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) of shoreline.
Black Lake was so named on account of the dark character of its water.
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