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

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.

Smyrna within Harrison County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Smyrna, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Smyrna, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1900 county history

92,937 words on this township

The 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 2005

The 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1501
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 November 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2709
5 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 91 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Stillwater River, within Washington township, near Stillwater, Washington township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Laurel Creek, Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Laurel Creek, Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hemidactylium scutatum, not of this specimenHemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)1930Walker, 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 2018

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSmyrna$500A cooperative observer reported that a few trees were blown down along US Route 22 near Ohio Route 800.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Piedmont2.7 miles14
Piedmont2.8 miles14
Freeport2.9 miles16
Moorefield4.3 miles14
Clendening (historical)5.8 miles14
Nottingham (historical)7.0 miles13
Tippecanoe7.1 miles14
Cassville8.5 miles13

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.