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Centralia, Pennsylvania
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Centralia, Pennsylvania Centralia is a borough and a near ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 10 in 2010, as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia is one of the least-populated municipalities in Pennsylvania. Centralia is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. The borough is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township. All properties in the borough were claimed under eminent domain by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1992, and Centralia's ZIP code was revoked by the Postal Service in 2002. A few residents continue to reside there in spite of the failure of a lawsuit to reverse the eminent domain claim. (via Freebase)
 
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50 Years Later, Underground Fire Still Burning
50 Years Later, Underground Fire Still Burning
Associated Press | May 25, 2012
Most of Centralia, Pennsylvania was demolished in the 1980s after a slow-burning fire that began in 1962 spread to an underground network of coal mines. Only a handful of people remain now, resisting the state's efforts to help them leave, even th...