The Tampa International Airport is located 9 miles northwest of downtown Tampa. The Marriott Tampa Airport Hotel is located in the Tampa Airport. Additional hotels are about 1 mile away.
Not to be confused with 1947 Centralia mine disaster. The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States since at least May 27, 1962. The fire is suspected to be from deliberate burning of trash in a former strip mine, igniting a coal seam.
Centralia is a city in Lewis County, Washington, United States. The population was 16,336 at the 2010 census. In pioneer days, Centralia was the halfway stopover point for stagecoaches operating between the Columbia River and Seattle. In 1850, J. G. Cochran came from Missouri with a young African-American free man named George Washington whom Cochran had adopted as a son, and filed a donation land claim on the townsite.