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  • A subsequent legal effort by residents to have the decision reversed failed. In 2002, the U.S. Postal Service revoked Centralia's ZIP code, 1792
  • In 2002, the U.S. Postal Service revoked Centralia's ZIP code, 17927
  • ts population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005,^[1] 9 in 2007, and 7 in 2010^[2] as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962.
  • One theory asserts that in May 1962, the Centralia Borough Council hired five members of the volunteer fire company to clean up the town landfill, located in an abandoned strip-mine pit next to the Odd Fellows Cemetery. This had been done prior to Memorial Day in previous years, when the landfill was in a different location. The firefighters, as they had in the past, set the dump on fire and let it burn for a time. Unlike in previous years, however, the fire was not extinguished correctly.
  • such as the fact that a trash hauler dumped hot ash and/or coal discarded from coal burners into the open trash pi
  • In 2002, the U.S. Postal Service revoked Centralia's ZIP code, 17927
  • In 2009, Governor Ed Rendell began the formal eviction of Centralia residents.
  • The underground fire is still burning and will continue to do so for an estimated 250-1000 more years.^[7]
  • It is expected that many former residents will return in 2016 to open a time capsule buried in 1966 next to the veterans' memorial.^[1

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  Centralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005, 9 in 2007, and 7 in 2010 as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962

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  Pennsylvania ghost town that is the site of an underground coal mine fire that has been burning since 1962.

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