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Picher is a ghost town and former city in northeastern Oklahoma. This was a major national center of lead and zinc mining at the heart of the Tri-State Mining District. More than a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as chat) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of the cave-in risks, groundwater contamination, and health effects associated with the chat piles and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1980 in the Tar Creek Superfund Site by the EPA. A 2006 Army Corps of Engineers study showed 86% of Picher's buildings (including the town school) were badly undermined and subject to collapse at any time. The destruction of 150 homes by an EF4 tornado in May 2008 accelerated the exodus. On September 1, 2009, the state of Oklahoma officially dis-incorporated the city of Picher, which ceased official operations on that day. The population plummeted from 1,640 at the 2000 census to 20 at the 2010 census. The final known resident, Gary Linderman, the owner of the Ole Miner Pharmacy, died on June 9, 2015; leaving Picher possibly uninhabited. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma</a> |
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