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Norphlet Crater

Norphlet, AR

A dramatic oil-well blowout in 1922 left a crater-like scar and became part of the story of Arkansas’s early oil boom. The site is remembered locally as the Norphlet Crater.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/Norphlet-Union-County-6156/

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