Question for any oldtimes Salem fulton co. Arkansas

[Stormcrow73]

Originally Posted by RogMar

Perhaps what could be mistaken for a volcanic crater is a sink hole.

They're all around on the hill where I live and they're quite large. I have one near my road that if it was on top would most certainly resemble a volcanic top.

From what I understand, caverns run through these hills *all over*, winding like a snake up & down. Over time, some of the caverns collapse, and that causes the sink hole.

I do hope someone from the Salem area can answer the OP's question.

I was thinking sinkhole too. I've seen some huge ones and after a few thousand years the edges of one could easily get rolled over and be a bit "gentle." Another possibility, (highly unlikely but possible) would be a meteor impact site. I know 14 meteors of varying sizes have been found in AR.

I'd still say it's a sinkhole though even having never seen it just based on how common they are in the Ozarks.

[SwinerBock]

Not being familiar with Salem at all, I have no idea. I do know that South Arkansas has its own "crater" called the Norphlet Crater (near El Dorado). It was created when a natural gas well exploded back in 1922.

[Stormcrow73]

Hey Bill

Seeing as I'm a sucker for stuff like this, I did some looking around on google maps satellite view. Pretty sure I found your mountain. It matches your location description perfectly and sure enough there's a depression just beside the pinnacle. The mountain is called Wallace Knob:

salem, ar - Google Maps

If you switch to terrain view on that link, you can see that the lower edge of the depression is still pretty far above the road surface elevation even though it appears on the satellite view to open out into a flat field.

Still doesn't really help us figure out what caused it though!

[RogMar]

Good catch, Stormcow.

I tried to click ya on that one, but I just clicked ya on another one recently, and it says I gotta "spread some reputation around" 'fore I can click ya again............

Let's just say ya got a "virtual" one.

[billr]

Stormcrow73,

I believe that you did find it. From looking at the location of Wallace Knob it appears to be in the right location of where I lived and it certainly shows a crater.

Kind of up and to the right of the knob there is a a road sign noting US 62. Just to the right of that sign is a small round pond. The highway makes a slight turn to the left at this point also. If memory serves me right the house we lived in at that time would have been located about 200 feet NW of that pond. It appears that the old house is no longer there but after almost 60 years that is not too surprising.

I appreciate you finding the map of it. I had tried to locate it by map before but I think my mistake was I forgot to look in the terrain mode.

Also to all those others who posted to this thread, I thank you and each one was helpful in one way or another.

When we lived there I use to walk from there into downtown a lot. In fact my dog would walk with me and funny thing is he would always walk between me and the traffic. Did that consistently without fail. He was in even more ways a very smart dog.

That area as well as the community of Lakeview near Bull Shoals gave me a bunch of cherished memories from back mid century.

I have always loved the northern Arkansas and the wife and I were planning to relocate someplace there. We were looking at the area around from Hardy to Mountain Home. However with the housing market situation, it is almost impossible to sell our place here. We have to sell before we can make any move.

Will just have to wait and see what develops.

Again thanks to everyone.

Peace
BillR