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CENTRALIA PENNSYLVANIA
Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 9 in 2007 as a result of a 40-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania

CENTRALIA and its few remaining residents are the focus of Chris Perkel and Georgie Roland's 2007 feature-length documentary The Town That Was.

CENTRALIA is the inspiration to the Centralia a CD by the Canadian band Dream Quest

CENTRALIA is included in a short documentary on the Broken Saints DVD set.
Bill Bryson, in his humorous travel guide to the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, describes a visit to the town.

Jennifer Finney Boylan's novel The Planets (written under the name James Boylan) and its sequel The Constellations are both set in Centralia.
The town seems to be the direct inspiration for the setting of Dean Koontz's short novel Strange Highways.

CENTRALIA is the inspiration for the 1991 cult film Nothing But Trouble, written by Dan Aykroyd.

CENTRALIA was the pre-production codename and a small influence for the movie adaptation of the game Silent Hill.[1]

The Squonk Opera wrote and performed a musical called Inferno, re-interpreting Dante Alighieri's Inferno as a trip into Centralia.

CENTRALIA is the hometown of the main character in "Dirty Blonde" by Lisa Scottoline.

CENTRALIA is documented in photographs and oral histories in "Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania" by Renee Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press/1986)

In the 2003 book, Bubbles Ablaze, by Sarah Strohmeyer, Centralia is the inspiration for the fictional town of Limbo, Pennsylvania.

Information on the story of Centralia can also be found in Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran's book entitled Weird Pennsylvania.

The progressive metal band Car Bomb named their 2007 album after the town.

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The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) north-northwest. The power plant has been named after the city, and was located in Chernobyl Raion (district), but it was not the residence of power plant workers. At the time of power plant construction a twin city of the plant, Prypiat was built closer to the plant to be home for power plant workers.

Nowadays, even though the city is basically uninhabited, a few people still live there. The occupied houses are not so distinguishable from the rest, and there are signs on them stating that the "Owner of this house lives here". Also, workers on watch and administrative personnel of the Zone of Alienation are stationed in the city on term basis. Before the accident, the city was inhabited by about 14,000 residents.


After playing the vidio game S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, I had to throw in a few Chernobyl sites. Lots of good pictures!
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