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

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

• Black Hawk Down (disambiguation)