Smithville Center, New York
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Smithville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13778. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.
Then and now
1902 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1902 USGS Coventry quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Tyner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Tyner quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Smithville Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 10 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 June 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 7 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithville Center in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | Smithville Center | $550,000 | Major flash flooding occurred as numerous roads were flooded by very heavy rain. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Smithville Center | $75,000 | A tornado touched down in the early morning hours of April 28 about 4.5 miles south-southeast of McDonough and moved northeast cutting a path through heavy woods. The tornado passed just south of Lake Ludlow where a couple homes where damaged by the storm. The tornado path appeared to be its strongest and widest just south of the lake through the wooded area. It continued to the northeast where the path narrowed again and weakened. The tornado lifted a little less than 2 miles south of east McDonough.||A significant swath of trees were also blown down southwest of the tornado track on Waldron Road. These trees were all pointing to the southeast in a slightly divergent pattern and were associated with a significant downburst of wind. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville Center | $10,000 | Thunderstorms winds downed trees and wires. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville Center | $2,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Hammerle Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville Center | $2,000 | Trees and wires were blown down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville Center | - | Emergency management reported trees and wires blown down by thunderstorm winds along Route 220. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Smithville Center | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Corner | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Dibble Corner | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Corbin Corner | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Tyner | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Buckley Hollow | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Brisben | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Smithville Flats | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| South Oxford | 5.9 miles | 16 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122539640 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973081. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









