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No, Silent Hill is not a real place. The movie version of Silent Hill is actually based on a town in Pennsylvania called Centralia. Apparently, a trash fire accidentally ignited the underground coal deposits in the 60's, and the fires have been burning underneath the town ever since.
Gold Hill, Nevada: before 1900 (top) and in 2007. Both photos taken from (roughly) the same viewpoint. An open-pit mine was dug (ramp lower left, bottom photo) after 1900. Gold Hill is an unincorporated community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City. Incorporated December 17, 1862, in order to prevent its annexation by its larger neighbor, the town at one point was home to at least 8,000 residents.