Did you know that there are six American cities that have a volcano within their city limits? Hold up, what! And that includes one major city here in Texas, y’all, I’m talking about our capital city.
Here are the American cities with volcanoes in them: Portland, Oregon, Bend, Oregon, Jackson, Mississippi, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Prescott Valley, Arizona. All of those cities just became a lot cooler to me. So, which Texas city makes the list?
Pilot Knob Volcano In Austin, TX, City Limits
The answer is the capital of the Lone Star State, Austin. Did you know this? The volcano is named Pilot Knob, and it’s located in southeast Austin, near McKinney Falls State Park. It’s not too far from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (convenient if it starts erupting again).
Pilot Knob is the largest extinct volcano in the state of Texas. It is a low-slung hill with a diameter of over two miles. It’s also the only exposed submarine volcano in the state.
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Pilot Knob is extinct (for now), and for those of us who don’t recall Volcano: 101 in elementary school, “an extinct volcano is a volcano that scientists believe is unlikely to erupt again because it no longer has a magma supply.”…