Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township. All real estate in the borough was claimed under eminent domain in 1992 and condemned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Centralia's ZIP Code was discontinued by the Postal Service in... Wikipedia

• Country:  United States
• State:  Pennsylvania
• County:  Columbia
• Settled:  1841 (as Bull's Head)
• Incorporated:  1866 (Borough of Centralia)
• Founded by:  Jonathan Faust
• Mayor:  Carl Womer (d. 2014)
• Water:  0%
• Population (2020):  5
• Time zone:  Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST):  EDT (UTC-4)
• ZIP Code:  17927 (discontinued 2002), 17921 (Ashland 2002–present)
• Area code:  570
• FIPS code:  42-12312