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Its original cause and start date are still a matter of debate. [1] [page needed] [2] [3] [page needed] It is burning at depths of up to 300 ft (90 m) over an 8 mi (13 km) stretch of 3,700 acres (15 km 2). [4] At its current rate, it could continue to burn for over 250 years. [5] Due to the fire, Centralia was mostly abandoned in the 1980s.
Centralia (/ s ɛ n ˈ t r eɪ l i ə / sen-TRAY-li-ə) is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 [8] because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.
a coal mining ghost town, where a fire has been burning underground for years Cereal: Lindencross Westmoreland County: North Huntingdon Township: Was a major location for breakfast cereal production plants starting in 1904 until the factories closed for good in the 1940s. [26] Chester: Humphries Westmoreland County: Derry Township: 1644
“Some coal fires have been burning for over 1,000 years, and there’s just nothing you can do,” Garrison said. In the early days of the fire, smoke was pouring from the mine.
In 1961, an exposed seam of coal at Centralia caught fire and eventually forced almost the entire community to abandon the area; the underground coal fire is still burning today, and it is estimated that it can burn for another 250 years.
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