Wetumpka Impact Crater - Wetumpka, Alabama Southern Oddities
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Wetumpka, is a city located in Elmore County, Alabama, and its called "The City of Natural Beauty" by some of the locals, like myself. This city is home to Alabama's greatest natural disaster. A meteorite, estimated to be 1,000 feet wide, hit the area about 83 million years ago. Creating a 5 mile wide impact crater, roughly 175,000 times greater than the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima in 1945, that blasted into the bedrock of this so called star wound.
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Wetumpka, is a city located in Elmore County, Alabama, and its called "The City of Natural Beauty" by some of the locals, like myself. This city is home to Alabama's greatest natural disaster. A meteorite, estimated to be 1,000 feet wide, hit the area about 83 million years ago. Creating a 5 mile wide impact crater, roughly 175,000 times greater than the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima in 1945, that blasted into the bedrock of this so called star wound.
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Researched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission [Documents] WSFA [Hiking with Hailey Wetumpka Impact Crater] Wikipedia [Wetumpka, Alabama] Wikipedia [Wetumpka Crater]
"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production.
This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network
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