Centralia Mine Fire Map

Living so close to the town of centralia i am also very excited to represent the area i ve grown up in and share that world with everyone who isn t familiar with the coal.

Centralia mine fire map. About centralia pa and the mine fire. Soon a fire was raging in a coal seam beneath centralia. The first is to the south end of the town and runs along park and peach streets. The population dwindled from around 1 500.

Fifty years later the ground still burns and the town if you can call it that is no more than a ghostly condemned zone. The routine controlled burn went below ground catching the natural reserves of anthracite coal on fire under the community. This event has been postponed due to restrictions related to social. The map below is linked to a larger map.

Multiple attempts were. They attended the local churches and went to nearby schools. However the 660 million price tag and no guarantee that this would stop the fire made the government balk and so the fire is left to burn itself out. It has caused most of the town to be abandoned.

In 1962 the centralia mine fire propelled the quiet borough into the spotlight overnight. It is especially hot and visible in this area. The centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of centralia pennsylvania united states since at least may 27 1962 its original cause is still a matter of debate. The centralia fire has been emitting heat.

People lived there and raised families. The centralia mine fire website will also incorporate information directly from a citizen who moved out of the town as this entire ordeal was occurring. A map produced by nolter and vice 2004 was used as a reference to identify the locations of the fire from the 1960 s to 2003 fig. Several sources have been compiled to produce a map illustrating the location and movement of the coal fire at centralia since 1962.

I will share my great aunt s interesting recollections with everyone to get the most accurate idea of what this was like for someone living in the town at the time. In that sense centralia pennsylvania is like any other town. Conditions became so dangerous people left voluntarily or the government coerced them to leave. In 1962 a mine fire began under centralia pa.

Every town has a story. Plant an apple tree in centralia. Today the town is gone. At its current rate it could continue to burn for over 250 years.

Many former and current residents of centralia believed that this was a ploy by the federal government to strip mine the town to get to the rich deposits of coal below. Click the map to view a larger detailed local regional map. Here the fire is heading to the west. It is burning in underground coal mines at depths of up to 300 feet 90 m over an 8 mile 13 km stretch of 3 700 acres 15 km 2.

The burn zone in centralia pa is actually composed of four fronts where the mine fire is currently active.