Byrnesville, Pennsylvania

Byrnesville was a town located in Conyngham Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[2] Most of the residents were Irish Catholics who worked in the local anthracite coal mines.

In late 1983, the 98th United States Congress approved $42 million to help move families impacted by the fire.

The only remaining structures there as of July 2019 are a religious Shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary on a hillside by the side of Route 61,[2] an intermodal container, and the structural remains of a garage now reclaimed by nature.

[4] The present-day routing of Pennsylvania Route 61 follows the two-lane Byrnesville Road — originally an old logging road through Byrnesville — bypassing a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) long section of the original route of the four-lane highway which has been heavily damaged by subsidence caused by the underground fire.