Centralia. The Burning Town. The Town That Was.
In 1962, a fire started in a mine beneath the town and ultimately led to the town being almost entirely abandoned.
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 the Centralia mine fire that has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.