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Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana

unincorporated community in Monroe County, Indiana

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7545657 ↗
Source-derived summary

Smithville is an unincorporated community in Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana.

History

Smithville was laid out in 1851 when the New Albany Railroad was extended to that point. The community was named for George Smith, one of the founders. A post office has been in operation at Smithville since 1854.

Editorial summary

“Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana” enters the record as unincorporated community in Monroe County, Indiana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Smithville, Monroe and County can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1851, 1854—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Smithville, Monroe and County.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Smithville, Monroe and County provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7545657. VIAF identifies the subject as 232431521. The Library of Congress control number is no2012017734. Authority coordinates are 39.071, -86.507. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1851 and 1854.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana primary sources, Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana archive and Smithville research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.