Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site
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.
Marker is on 12th Street (U.S. 25E), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
