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Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005[1] and 9 in 2007,[2] as a result of a 46-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania, with four fewer residents than the borough of S.N.P.J.

SM-Count wrote:http://maryland.hometownlocator.com/MD/Dorchester/Crapo.cfm

Kratos wrote:

SM-Count wrote:http://maryland.hometownlocator.com/MD/Dorchester/Crapo.cfm

What's the relation with Centralia?

SM-Count wrote:

Kratos wrote:

SM-Count wrote:http://maryland.hometownlocator.com/MD/Dorchester/Crapo.cfm

What's the relation with Centralia?

They both start with C...


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the.unseen. wrote:This City didn't inspire the Silent hill games really at all. It did for the film tho.

Draquish wrote:

the.unseen. wrote:This City didn't inspire the Silent hill games really at all. It did for the film tho.

The film was inspired by the game.


*runs away*

The film, particularly its emotional and aesthetic content as well as its creature design, includes elements from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 3 however, no elements are included from Silent Hill 4.

Writer Roger Avary states about Silent Hill that

"the base idea was that this is not a haunted house, it's a haunted town, y'know, separate from our reality, but it also exists within our reality. So you effectively become a ghost during your time there. And it's a very terrifying emotion, that you are a ghost of yourself. Frankly I think it's a theme that's followed me."'

In researching the different elements of Silent Hill, screen writer Roger Avary was inspired when he heard of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and decided to base the film on it. The population of the town has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005[19] and 9 in 2007,[20] as a result of a 46-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough.

In 1962, an exposed vein of coal ignited, due to the standard policy of burning the garbage on a weekly basis in the borough landfill. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it continued to burn throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Adverse health effects were reported by several people due to the carbon monoxide produced.

In 1984, Congress allocated more than $42 million for relocation efforts. Most of the residents accepted buyout offers and moved. Today a handful of occupied homes remain in Centralia. Most of the buildings have been razed, and at casual glance the area now appears to be a meadow with several paved streets through it, and some areas are being filled with new-growth forest.