Centralia Chronicle

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 1—After its owners purchased a former bank building in downtown Centralia earlier this year, The Chronicle moved to its new ...

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Yahoo: The Chronicle to host 2025 election debates Wednesday at Centralia College

Centralia (/ sɛnˈtreɪliə / sen-TRAY-li-ə) is a borough and near- ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 [8] because of a coal mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated ...

Planning to visit Centralia, Pennsylvania? Find out what there is to do in Centralia, PA, and how to get to Centralia, Pennsylvania's toxic ghost town.

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Centralia, Pennsylvania once boasted 14 active coal mines and 2,500 residents in the early 20th century. But by the 1960s, its boomtown heyday had passed and most of its mines were abandoned. Still, over 1,000 people called it home, and Centralia was far from dying — until a coal mine fire began ...

Inside Centralia, The Abandoned Town That's Been On Fire For 60 Years

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Centralia, PA, is an abandoned mining town where an underground fire has been burning for decades. Can you visit Centralia, PA? Should you?

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Sixty years into the fire that left the town condemned, Centralia is now a haven for wild plants and butterflies.

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Centralia is a once-thriving small town in Columbia County, PA that was abandoned because of a mine fire burning underneath it since 1962.