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Podcast: Small Town News
Episode: Decorah, IA - We Plot Our Solo Spin-off Podcasts
Description: Welcome to Decorah, Iowa! Decorah is the seat of Winneshiek County and is located in Northeast Iowa. The town is built on top of a nearly four mile wide crater created by a large meteorite about 470 million years ago.  The crater was filled in when an ancient seaway filled the crater with sediment and strange sea creatures that hardened into fossils. One of the creatures is even named for the city, Pentecopterus Decorahensis. The town is located in the Driftless Area, an area in the Midwest that was never covered by ice during the last ice age. Because the area l...