Case file · Cosmic event
Middlesboro: a town in a crater
Middlesboro, Kentucky, sits in a 6 km bowl in the Cumberland Mountains that was confirmed as an ancient meteorite impact crater when shocked quartz was identified in 2003.
2003 CE · 36.62, -83.73 · status: official
The account
The impact is thought to have happened roughly 300 million years ago. It is one of the few towns in the world built inside an impact crater.