Lost City, Oklahoma

Lost City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.

[4][5] According to one source, the name came about after Cherokee natives settled in the area after removal, but ended up disappearing from their village even though their belongings and even their campfire remained.

The city is part of "Green Country", a region of the state characterized by green vegetation and numerous lakes, including Fort Gibson Lake, which lies west of Lost City.

[1] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 23.5 square miles (60.9 km2), all land.

This was the first time in the US that simultaneous photography of a fireball from multiple observation points was achieved, making it possible to calculate a trajectory and delimit a search area on the ground.

Six days later Gunther Schwartz, a field manager for the network, went to the Lost City school to ask questions to see if anyone had seen or heard anything about it, at that time a maintenance man and bus driver by the name of Isaac Gifford told the scientist he had seen it while he was raccoon hunting.

[10] The photos that were taken by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory enabled scientists to reconstruct the meteorites orbit...concluding that it originated somewhere in the asteroid belt.

This Lost City Meteorite photograph was taken by one of the (now-defunct) Prairie Meteorite Network cameras. Standing behind and off to the left of the photograph is the farmer who accidentally found two fragments of this meteorite. For playing such a pivotal role in the Lost City Meteorite Fall, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory awarded him with this copy of the original photograph. [ 8 ]
This 272-g fragment was discovered on January 17, 1970. A cattle farmer found it while walking through his cow pasture. [ 9 ]
The farmer who found the 272-g fragment also found this much smaller fragment on the roof of his house.
Cherokee County map