Smithfield, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1997

Matched 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.

• 1901 USGS Cadiz quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Cadiz quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Cadiz quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Smithfield between 2003 and 2018, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• McIntyre
• Weems
• Chandler
• Newell
• Piney Fork
• Bradley

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Museums hold 436 specimens collected within 10 miles of Smithfield between 1876 and 1974: 356 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 37 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Arden R. Gaufin, Baer and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Polygonum erectum L.	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
	Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link	1902	W. A. Kellerman
	Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813	1941	not recorded	Steubenville, Union Cemetery
	Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1876	Collector(s): C. G. Newberry	York Township
	Mniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)	1876	Collector(s): C. G. Newberry	York Township
	Betula lenta L.	1877	Wertz, H.W.	Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
	Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1877	Guttenberg, H.G.	Wellsburg
	Polypodium virginianum L.	1879	J. M. Coulter	Charlestown
	Ionaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni	1893	Calkins, W. W.	Short Creek
	Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1902	W. A. Kellerman
	Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.	1902	W. A. Kellerman
	Puccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.	1902	W. A. Kellerman

All 436 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Smithfield in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065337. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.