US city name troll?

[Victoria]

I was looking through the xml's and noticed at the bottom of the US city names was a name I had not come across... Centralia... Now does Firaxis consider Centralia one of the best goddamn cities in the U S of A?
Wiki says it has a population of 3 who will have to give up their houses to the government on death as the whole area is condemned..... I did laugh and it has made me more appreciative of life ... not the best advertisement for the wonders of the US.... Or maybe there is another larger Centralia Google is missing?

<Row CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AMERICA" CityName="LOC_CITY_NAME_CENTRALIA"/>

 

[bite]

It's been a joke in a couple of past entries

 

[Photi]

maybe my search results are skewed because i am searching from washington, but do you mean centralia washington? i don't think i've ever been there, but have surely zipped passed it on I-5 going to or from seattle/portland. don't know what you mean by condemned?

 

[Victoria]

@bite do we really have to put up with this friggin 2 minutes before your next post for the rest of our lives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

 

[Photi]

Even gamey inside jokes have an east coast bias. Bollocks!

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

There are Centralias in several states. None are even remotely large though. Perhaps they picked it for being such a generically American city name, like Springfield.

 

[leif erikson]

Sorry, off topic for a minute:

@bite do we really have to put up with this friggin 2 minutes before your next post for the rest of our lives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

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Back to topic.

 

[Lanthar]

If you look in the Wikipedia entry for Centralia, Washington, note that it is Soren Johnson's hometown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Washington

 

[Victoria]

Aaah not a troll .. tx!

 

[Hep Roc Heretic]

FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Missouri. Population 4000+/-. Been there once. Don't remember a thing about it.

 

[DizzKneeLand33]

FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Missouri. Population 4000+/-. Been there once. Don't remember a thing about it.

You didn't miss much. Trust me.

 

[WillowBrook]

It's #40 on the American city lists for civ IV and V:
http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/American_(Civ4)
http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/American_(Civ5)

It's not on earlier civ city lists. The civ V wikia entry linked above associates it with Pennsylvania's mine-fire-plagued Centralia, but the Soren Johnson Washington connection seems more plausible to me.

 

[shaglio]

There are Centralias in several states. None are even remotely large though. Perhaps they picked it for being such a generically American city name, like Springfield.

Or Middletown "I chose 'Middletown' because there is a Middletown in almost every state in the US."

 

[Victoria]

The civ V wikia entry linked above associates it with Pennsylvania's mine-fire-plagued Centralia

Well maybe it's a Soren troll.

 

[stinkubus]

There are Centralias in several states. None are even remotely large though. Perhaps they picked it for being such a generically American city name, like Springfield.

It's funny you say this because the whole reason the town was evacuated is that they live on top of the real life Springfield tire fire.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

It's funny you say this because the whole reason the town was evacuated is that they live on top of the real life Springfield tire fire.

Yup. It's the worst coal mine fire in the US, but there are tons of them all over. The biggest one is in Australia, and is thought to have been started by natural causes. My family has a ranch in Colorado, and there is a small coal mine fire burning inside a hill just over the property line. Snow never settles on top, and you can see water evaporating off it after rain. My brother climbed on top and says it smells like hot tar.

 

[God of Kings]

Don't forget Hunt Valley!