Volume 17 , Issue 6

Major County, Oklahoma

Fairview, Oklahoma is the county seat of Major county. My Maternal grandparents and relatives settled around Chester, sometimes referred to as "Cottonwood Corners" and "Tailholt." Click this link for more about Major County, Oklahoma.

The town of Ames, in eastern Major County, north central Oklahoma, there is a circular depression surrounded by an annular ridge that is buried under approximately 3000m of Ordovician and younger sediments. On the site is a significant oil and gas production that supports 65 wells. It is said to be between 450-million to 600-million years old. Does anyone out there know exactly where this meteorite impact is located?

If you travel on down Ames' Main Street to the west, on the NE corner of Main & Broadway Street, west side of the old, vacant G. W. Turner hardware & Implement building is the third mural depicting a view of the Main Street of Ames looking East.

As you come into Ames from the North, across Main Street to the south of the railroad tracks is the Farmers Cooperative that has a mural depicting the "First Town Meeting" (picture furnished by the Patton Family). 

If you look to the right (west), on north side of Main Street, there is another mural across from the Fire Department, and on the east side of a vacant building shaded by a huge elm tree.

Ames, Oklahoma, Major County, Meteorite Impact Structure. "Gravity and Magnetic Investigation of the Ames Structure, North Central Oklahoma" - "Located near Ames, Oklahoma, in eastern Major county, the Ames structure is a circular depression surrounded by an annular ridge. It is buried under about 3000m of Ordovician and younger sediments and is the site of significant oil and gas production (Carpenter and Carlson, 1992; Hamm and Olsen, 1992). Its origin has been variously attributed to meteorite impact, volcanic activity, dissolution collapse and other causes." 

"A local oil field is one of only three in the western hemisphere drilled on an ancient meteor crater; the 600-million-year old crater is eight miles in diameter and supports 65 wells."
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