Seven hills of Seattle

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Seattle, Washington is sometimes claimed to have been built on seven hills. Many other cities of the world have similar traditions. Rome, for example, was said to have been built on seven hills, as was the city later founded to succeed it as the capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople.

There is no firm consensus on precisely which hills constitute the seven hills of Seattle. Walt Crowley considered the following the "main candidates":

First Hill, also known as 'Pill Hill' for its preponderance of hospitals
Yesler Hill, also known as Profanity Hill in what is now the First Hill neighborhood, site of present-day Harborview Medical Center and the Yesler Terrace housing project.
Second Hill or Renton Hill (both names have passed out of common usage; it referred to an area roughly centered at 18th Avenue and Madison Street, and in present-day parlance would be considered to constitute upper Capitol Hill and upper First Hill.)^[1]^[2]
Denny Hill (razed, see sub article for details on the Denny regrade project.)
Capitol Hill
Queen Anne Hill
Beacon Hill

Arguably West Seattle should be included in this list; however it was originally incorporated as a separate city, pre-dating Seattle, and not annexed by Seattle until 1907[1]. Other hills sometimes said to be among the original seven include:

Magnolia
Crown Hill (not annexed until 1954[2])

[edit] Notes

^ Map of the city of Seattle, The New Encyclopedic Atlas & Gazetteer of the World, 1917 Edition, P. F. Collier & Son, p. 234
^ David Wilma, Renton Hill residents organize Seattle's first community club on June 18, 1901, HistoryLink, April 1, 2001. Accessed 26 January 2008.