Crooked Creek Crater - Missouri
Posted by: 
BruceS
N 37° 50.343 W 091° 22.785
15S E 642568 N 4189194
Impact crater located in south central Missouri southwest of Steelville.
Waymark Code: WM3QG0
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/05/2008
Views: 97
The Crooked Creek crater is 7 km in diameter and is exposed. The crater was created 320 ± 80 million years ago. The crater is located in a rural area in the Ozark mountains region of Missouri. The coordinates listed are at the intersection of Swyers Road and Crooked Creek Road within the crater. The crater is visible but to the untrained eye it would appear like many other valleys in the area except for the walls of the valley are on all sides except interrupted by Crooked Creek running through it. I did find an interesting rock formation south on Crooked Creek Road at N37° 49.988' W91° 22.864' on the east side of road. Whether it had anything to do with the impact I don't know, it was just interesting. (Photo uploaded)
Type of Crater: Simple
Crater Diameter: 7 km
Age of Crater: 320,000,000.00
Crater Web Page: [Web Link]
View from the Coordinates:
Cattle, deer, fences, creek bottom pasture land. There is a strange deposit of rocks scattered across the hillside along the east side of Edgar Road
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