Gates County historian Linda Hofler pointed to a tiny place on the map where the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia turns just a little. About a half-mile is all. “It’s one of those ...

You can see the fireball’s path on the map provided by NASA, shown below. It’s represented by the blue arrow. Trajectory of a June 26 fireball near the Virginia/North Carolina border.

North Carolina engaged in a series of rail improvements in the late 2010s called the Piedmont Corridor project. It was similar to the improvements Virginia is undertaking now.