Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site

Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site (HMM7U)

Location: Middlesboro, KY 40965 Bell County
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Country: United States of America
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N 36° 36.65', W 83° 42.128'

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Side A:
Designated by the Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists as a Distinguished Geological Site. Middlesboro is one of only a few cities on the North American Continent located in the basin of a meteorite impact structure.

Side B:
Sometime over the past 300 million years the impact of a meteorite in the heights of the Appalachian Mountains formed a circular basin approximately three miles in diameter in which the city of Middlesboro was built in 1889.
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HM NumberHMM7U
Series This marker is part of the Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society series
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Marker Number2225
Year Placed2006
Placed ByBell County Historical Society, Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Department of Highways
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Friday, October 3rd, 2014 at 3:11pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 258328 N 4055102
Decimal Degrees36.61083333, -83.70213333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 36° 36.65', W 83° 42.128'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds36° 36' 39.00" N, 83° 42' 7.68" W
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Area Code(s)423, 606
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 324-328 12th St, Middlesboro KY 40965, US
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