Picher, Oklahoma
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Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the center of the Tri-S
A view looking north along Connell Ave, which was the main business district, 2007. The Picher Water Tower stands in the background.
Mining waste near neighborhoods South Treece Street, 2008
A former residential neighborhood with no homes standing
The former Tri State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association Office was on the National Register of Historic Places, 2008. The building was destroyed by arson in April 2015.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
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Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 beca
Picher, Oklahoma
…shipped to the Dobson Museum in Miami, Oklahoma, by that point. Picher is among a small number of locations in the world (such as Gilman, Colorado; Centralia, Pennsylvania; and Wittenoom, Western Australia) to be evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental and health damage caused by mining. The closest towns…
Cemetery at Centralia
A warning sign in Centralia
Centralia area showing conditions before mine fire
A small part of the Centralia mine fire as it appeared after being exposed during an excavation in 1969