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This article is about the fictional town in which Clark Kent lives. For the article about the television show itself, see Smallville (TV series).

A map of Smallville, from smallville.warnerbros.com

Smallville is a small rural town in Lowell County, Kansas, USA. It was founded in 1831 by Ezra Small. Clark Kent has lived in Smallville all his life since being adopted into the home of Jonathan and Martha Kent. Smallville is located within driving distance of Metropolis (in Abyss Chloe Sullivan mentions that it was "something like" a two hour commute. Whether this was one way travel time or round trip wasn't made clear), 425 miles from Hub City, and near Granville. The current population is 45,001. [1] The local newspaper is the Smallville Ledger. The local radio station is called KROC. A fertilizer production branch of LuthorCorp is located in Smallville, known as LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant Number Three.

Smallville was proud of its status as the Creamed Corn Capital of the World until 1989 when it became the Meteor Capital of the World. Life is centered on Main Street, as it has been for two hundred years. Generation after generation has used the same bank, gas station, and library. There are many family-owned farms and acres of cornfields. The town borders Morley Reservoir.

When the meteor shower of 1989 occured, it caused all sorts of mutations and destruction to the town and its citizens. It was where the ship bearing the infant Kal-El landed after its journey through space from Krypton. The Kents adopted him, and Clark attended school in Smallville, graduating from Smallville High School in 2005.

Smallville itself changed dramatically in the years following the first meteor shower. It was dubbed "America's Weirdest Town" by a national news magazine, and it seemed that strange, unexplainable things were always taking place in the quiet hamlet that seemed so normal on the surface. So Smallville was soon called "The Meteor Capital Of The World!" Bizarre occurrences-- such as a 150-pound tomato, a golden retriever that gave birth to a two-headed puppy, and the miraculous recovery of a critically ill woman given no chance to survive by her doctors -- became increasingly common in Smallville.

Another meteor shower struck Smallville in 2005 and a widespread blackout originated from the town in 2006. The blackout was called Dark Thursday and affected the entire planet of Earth.

Along with Hub City, Metropolis, Gotham City, Keystone City, Blüdhaven, Coast City and Themyscira, Smallville is one of the confirmed DC Comics locales to be present in the world of Smallville.

Smallville has played host to the Lowell County fair and holds an annual Harvest Festival with a pageant in which they crown a local girl Miss Sweet Corn.

Smallville's Welcome Sign

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[edit] Residences

  • Smallville is an agricultural community and contains many farms and farming land:
    • The Kent Farm is the estate of the Kent family and the oldest farm in Lowell County.
    • The McNally farm is owned by Jed McNally
    • The Potter property is adjacent to the Kent Farm and was owned by Nell Potter, who raised horses.
    • Ben Hubbard also owns an active farm in the town.
  • LuthorCorp owns a housing development called Pleasant Meadows in the heart of the town.
  • The stately Luthor Mansion is located in the northeast corner of the town boundaries and is the home of Lex Luthor.
  • The Smallville Retirement Center is an assisted-living facility for the town's elderly residents.

[edit] Other Locations

  • Creekside Foundry is a building no longer used and with a high meteor rock content. Greg Arkin lived close to it and had a tree house in which he, Clark Kent, and Pete Ross would play when they were in grade school. As freshmen, Clark Kent fought a meteor-infected Greg in the foundry and Greg was crushed under machinery.(Metamorphosis)
  • Smallville Medical Center is the town's main healthcare facility.
  • Melville Family Nursery is a greenhouse belonging to the family of Jodi Melville which produced organic vegetables.
  • Smallville Cemetery is the final resting place for many of the town's residents. It is adjacent to the Kent Farm. Among those buried there are:

[edit] Topography

Smallville contains several geographical landmarks in which memorable events happened to its citizens.

[edit] Geography

  • Miller's Bend is an area of land owned for thousands of years by the Native American tribe called the Kawatche. Lionel Luthor purchased the land and planned to build an office park.
  • The Kawatche Caves are located below Miller's Bend. In light of the petition drive to Save the Caves led by Lana Lang and Henry Small, the state decided to exercise the Historic Artifacts Amendment and buy LuthorCorp out for 30 cents on the dollar.
  • Burnham Woods is the wooded area surrounding the infamous Crater Lake.

[edit] Fields

Evan's Field
Miller's Field
The black ship in Lander's Field.
  • Riley Field is the field near Smallville Fertilizer Plant #3 where the Smallville Crows traditionally place a fellow student as a Scarecrow. This is also the location where a young Lex Luthor was injured and rendered bald after a near-direct hit from a meteor during the meteor shower of 1989.
  • Chandler's Field is an area with a windmill on the outskirts of Smallville where Metropolis can be seen. Lana Lang was rescued by Clark Kent when, exposed to the Nicodemus flower, she climbed up the windmill and fell off. Also, Chloe Sullivan was buried alive under the windmill and had to be rescued. Evan Gallagher Sutherland requested to see the view from the top before he died. However, upon reaching the top, he aged so rapidly, he caused an explosion and destroyed the windmill. The field is ten miles due West of Smallville High School.
  • Miller's Field is the location in Smallville where Martha and Jonathan Kent found a toddler Kal-El/Clark on the day of the 1989 meteor shower. It also served as a dumping ground for the murder victims of Davis Bloome. He killed criminals to quell an uncontrollable transformation into a murderous creature, and buried his victims in this field.
  • Evan's Field is a field in Smallville where the biological mother of Evan Gallagher was vaporized, leaving only her infant child in a crater to be found by Clark Kent and Lana Lang. They named the boy Evan after where they had found him.
  • Lander's Field is a small field where the Black Ship crash-landed. It was also the crash site for the LuthorCorp helicopter that was carrying Lana Lang during the 2005 meteor shower.
  • Mayer's Field is the field from which Lex Luthor was abducted shortly before Dark Thursday.

[edit] Bodies of Water

  • The town borders Morley Reservoir, which is held back by the Smallville Dam.
  • The Elbow River is a river that runs through Smallville and is transversed by the infamous Loeb Bridge.
  • Crater Lake is a large lake in Burnham Woods that was once filled with meteor fragments. It is now a popular swimming destination for Smallville residents and teens.
  • Hob's Pond is where meteor rocks with a red vein were found and stones from that vein were substituted for rubies by the manufacturers of the Smallville High School class rings in 2002. It is adjacent to the Luthor Mansion.
  • Hobson's Pond is near an old church with a subterranean crypt, but the church was destroyed in 1989 by the meteor shower. In 2002, Jonathan Kent and Roger Nixon found shelter from the tornado in the crypt.

[edit] Gorges

  • Shuster's Gorge is the deepest meteor strike in Smallville, and the place where Sasha Woodman was stung by over a thousand bees.
  • Saunder's Gorge is the gorge in which Perry White jumped in order to prove that Clark Kent had super powers and would save him. Pete and Chloe attempted to jump the gorge as well.
  • Carlton Gorge is the gorge in which Dawn Stiles crashed her car. It contains an abundance of meteor rocks; Chloe reveals this gorge as being the place for "the mother load of all meteor rock."

[edit] Notes

  • Both Smallville, Kansas and Lowell County, Kansas are fictitious.
  • The exact location for Smallville proper in the State of Kansas has never been specifically revealed in any episode in the series. Different writers have written episodes either placing it in the center of the state or on the eastern side.
  • In the Season Six finale Phantom, Lois Lane discovers that the coordinates 38°52'N, 95°32'W lead to Reeves Dam, which is outside of Smallville's city limits. These coordinates in real life are in the extreme northeastern corner of Osage County, Kansas, near the town of Richland. In the Season Seven episode Sleeper, Chloe is looking at a satellite view for Metropolis; in reality she is viewing aerial shots to Kansas City, Kansas. So, if Smallville fans have Kansas City, Kansas as their de facto Metropolis substitute, a Richland location for a Smallville setting is therefore plausible. The real life distance or quickest drive between Richland and Kansas City is 61 miles or an hour and two minutes away. From this location or somewhere in the vicinity, a Smallville resident could make a "two-hour drive" to Metropolis if they take Kansas State Highway 10 or K-10 for a majority of their route.

[edit] See Also

  • Main Street - A list of locally-owned businesses utilized by the community.
  • Meteor showers - The signature events impacting the town.
  • The Talon - The local hangout for teens.
  • Smallville High School - The town's high school for grades nine through twelve.
  • LuthorCorp - The company that employees 2,500 Smallville residents.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ The Smallville welcome sign from the Pilot says "POP.: 45,001"

[edit] External Links

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