Newly released Pennsylvania maps indicate that the coal-fueled fire under Centralia could spread to the nearby town of Mount Carmel, according to an author who recently updated his book on the fire.

Interactive map There was a time when homes lined Locust Avenue in Centralia, Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 people lived there. Today, it’s a ghost town. An underground coal fire has been ...

The main highway, Route 61, had to be rerouted due to the damage caused by the fire. The Pennsylvania ... In 1983, Centralia's ZIP code was revoked, effectively erasing the town from maps.

The Centralia fire has been burning through an abandoned deep mine in Pennsylvania’s Buck Mountain Coal Bed since May of 1962. State officials aren’t entirely sure how the blaze started ...

state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of east-central Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after the mine fire spread ...