How a modern-day Mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000.
The reason: an underground Fire that began in 1962 has decimated the town with smoke and toxic gases, and has sinc.
But as of 2007, Centralia had the unwelcome distinction of being the state\'s tiniest municipality, with a population of nine.
By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000--not unusual for a onetime mining town.
How a modern-day Mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000