Welcome to Iowa; home of the Hawkeyes, Cyclones, and the biggest meteor impact crater in the U.S.
When this rock hit West-Central Iowa, it leveled nearly everything within a two hundred-mile radius. But it also provided some unexpected lasting benefits to the area.
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How Long Ago Did This Happen?
The giant Meteor struck the area around what is now Manson, Iowa way back during the Cretaceous Period, approximately 74 million years ago. It killed nearly everything within around 250 square miles of its impact, however, it was not a mass extinction event. That would come around 8 million years later. Sorry, Dinosaurs…