Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Smithville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44677. The Survey maps it on the Orrville quadrangle. 1,338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Smithville within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Smithville grew from 1,252 to 1,338 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	1,252
2020	1,338	+86 (+7%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Smithville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Smithville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

10 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Smithville between 2002 and 2002, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,249 shown

Museums hold 2,249 specimens collected within 10 miles of Smithville between 1877 and 1975: 1,829 Animalia, 225 Plantae, 154 Fungi, 40 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1930	B. Montgomery & J. Houser	2 miles northeast of Wooster
Aster ciliolatus Lindl.	1877	Thorne, B.H.	Station Farm, Wooster
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City
Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in)
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Chelidon Forster, 1817	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster

All 2,249 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Smithville: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Orrville Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer
Wayne County Hwy Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jones Limestone Company Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rodco Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms nearby

14 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Smithville in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2011	Hail	Smithville	$100,000	Thunderstorms produced half dollar to hen egg size hail. Numerous vehicles and homes sustained damage from the large hail.
April 2002	Hail	Smithville	$50,000	Golf ball size hail was reported.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithville	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down across northern Wayne County.
May 2006	Hail	Smithville	$10,000	Walnut size hail was observed.
May 2006	Hail	Smithville	$8,000	Half dollar size hail was observed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a dugout at a softball field.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithville	$2,000	Trained spotters and amateur radio operators reported trees and power lines downed in the Smithville area.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithville	$2,000	A trained weather spotter reported 2 large trees brought down by thunderstorm wind.
June 2002	Hail	Smithville	$2,000	Dime size hail was observed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithville	-	Trees downed in Smithville.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithville	-	Trees downed in Smithville.
June 2013	Hail	Smithville	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
July 2012	Hail	Smithville	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2006	Funnel Cloud	Smithville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Five Points	1.3 miles	15
Weilersville	1.6 miles	15
Paradise (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Boys Village	3.0 miles	17
Melrose Village	3.0 miles	17
Spruce Tree Village	3.3 miles	17
Madisonburg	3.4 miles	17
Meadow Brook	3.5 miles	17

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.

Wikipedia article on Smithville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668548	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 1065338. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.