CENTRALIA, PENNSYLVANIA (the town that
burns from under!

Centralia was a town of about 1100 now there are fewer than 15 people living in this town or remains of it. In 1962 a trash dump caught on fire and eventually caught an underground coal seam on fire that is still burning to this day! It made international headlines. The government paid majority of the residents in 1983 to relocate because of poisonous gases and the subsiding of land. However there are a few hardcore people who just don't want to leave. Centralia is a very interesting place to visit. For those travelling through middle PA I recommend stopping in Centralia. Not quite a volcano, but its good enough for me!

"The Closed Road" Road collapse from subsidence.	"Underground Fire 020515 Steam issuing from hot ground.
"Steaming Banks 020515"	"Scorched Landscape 020515 Dead trees from the poisonous gasses.
"Tiny Vent" Hot gasses and fumes emits from this tiny vent.	"Burning Road Crack" Subsidence from the burning coal seam underneath
"Yellowstonelike Landscape 020515" Definitley not Yellowstone!	"Steps to Nowhere 020515" Steps to a field behind the former Hubert Eicher High School.
"The Road Nowhere" Former road in Centralia	"Centralia Town" There used to be many houses here!
"Don't Walk There 020515"	"Steaming Banks 2 020515"
"Escaping Steam 020515" Ground is hot under there!!	"Venting Hot Air 020515" The temperature of the gasses from this vent is around 400 degrees F!

All Photos Copyright (C) Jeffrey F Brown