 Wetumpka is the home of "Alabama's greatest natural disaster".A meteorite, estimated to be wide, hit the area about 80 million years ago.The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of a impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme ("star-wound") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock that can be found beneath the surface.