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Picher
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created by CaJuN
on 6/28/2010 5:35 PM
last modified by Dee Ashley
on 10/15/2015 11:34 AM
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The town of Picher is being torn down as of January 2011, If you're gonna go, you're probably too late.
Check nearby towns of Cardin, and a few others in the area.
!0-2015:
Treece (located in was even more recently, included in the buyout. Treece is/was part of the Tri-cities mining district, and recently, earned a place in the Tar creek superfund locations.
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Type: Ghost Town
Status: Abandoned
Accessibility: Easy, it's on maps
Recommendation: drop everything - must see
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asbestos
rust
unsafe flooring
flooding
water
air quality
probably just about every kind of hazard you can think of here
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Fairly recently abandoned mining town, there' a little of everything here, houses streets, old businesses... There's really not a lot left active...
10-2015:
As of October of 2015, there is very little left of Picher, OK. There is an abandoned church, and a gutted chunk of neighborhood (I mean, completely gutted down to every piece of glass in the windows even). Only a couple structures still stand, and the best one (the school) still standing is partly occupied by law enforcement, judging from the 3 or 4 squad cars and a couple other city misc. vehicles. In short, it's not nearly as great of an explore as it was two or three years ago since the government came in and bulldozed the entire town.
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Like the hazrds, It depends where youre at in town. *EDIT* There are still people living here, and they see you go into a building, they will call the cops, and they will arrest you. Be careful if you decide to go.
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flashlight
gloves
long pants / sleeves
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Camera, bottled drinking water from far away from this place
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Was a mining town, now it's a Superfund site.
10-2015:
Here's an excerpt from Wiki:
"Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. Much of the land was originally owned by the Quapaw after Indian Removal. In the early 20th century, mining took place initially under federal leases of these lands but the Quapaw did not receive a fair share of royalties and were generally excluded from the thousands of mining jobs in the region. In 2000 they comprised a significant minority of the population in the city. 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 US Environmental Protection Agency. The state collaborated on mitigation and remediation measures, but a 1996 study found that 34% of the children in Picher suffered from lead poisoning due to these environmental effects, which could result in lifelong neurological problems.[4] Eventually EPA and the state of Oklahoma agreed to a mandatory evacuation and buyout of the entire township. The similarly contaminated satellite towns of Treece, Kansas and Cardin, Oklahoma were included in the Tar Creek Superfund site.
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.[5] The destruction of 150 homes by an F4 tornado in May 2008 accelerated the exodus. On September 1, 2009, the state of Oklahoma officially dis-incorporated the city of Picher.The town ceased official operations on September 1, 2009 and the population plummeted from 1,640 at the 2000 census to 20 at the 2010 census. As of January 2011, only six homes and one business remain, their owners having refused to leave at any price. The rest of the town's buildings, except designated historical structures, were scheduled to be demolished by the end of the year.
Picher is among a small number of locations in the world (such as Gilman, Colorado, Centralia, Pennsylvania, and Wittenoom, Western Australia) to be evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental and health damage caused by the mines the town once serviced."
Here is the original link (and much more detailed info on this location):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
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It'll be tied up in red tape until the sinkholes swallow it, or tornadoes finish what they started.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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| Coolness |
6 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Steed on 2/10/2016 2:38 AM.
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on Feb 10 16 at 2:38, Steed validated this location
on Feb 6 16 at 13:49, Dee Ashley updated gallery What Once Was
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on Feb 6 16 at 13:48, Dee Ashley updated gallery picture Location, Location, Location!
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