The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “The U.S. town on top of a coal mine fire still burning today.”
- Centralia Mine Fire Resources
- Emissions from Coal Fires and Their Impact on the Environment
- Fires in Abandoned Coal Mines and Waste Banks
- The great Centralia mine fire: A natural laboratory for the study of coal fires
- Looking back at the Centralia coal fire: a synopsis of its present status
- Divergent extremes but convergent recovery of bacterial and archaeal soil communities to an ongoing subterranean coal mine fire