Smyrna, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Freeport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43973. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 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
14 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.
- 1903 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Flushing 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
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
In the 1900 county history
92,937 words on this townshipThe county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Freeport Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Freeport Township - 92,937 words.
Fires nearby
7 since 2005The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Smyrna between 2005 and 2015, burning about 9 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1501 |
| 3 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2709 |
| 5 October 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 October 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 91 shownMuseums hold 91 specimens collected within 10 miles of Smyrna between 1929 and 1967: 49 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Buker, W.E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Stillwater River, within Washington township, near Stillwater, Washington township |
![]() | Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township |
![]() | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township |
![]() | Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township |
![]() | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Laurel Creek, Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Laurel Creek, Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio |
![]() | Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Laurel Creek, Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio |
All 91 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2018The National Weather Service names Smyrna in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smyrna | $500 | A cooperative observer reported that a few trees were blown down along US Route 22 near Ohio Route 800. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Piedmont | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Piedmont | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Freeport | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Moorefield | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Clendening (historical) | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Nottingham (historical) | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Tippecanoe | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Cassville | 8.5 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049184. 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.

























