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Smithfield

place in London, celebrated since at least 17c. as a market for cattle and horses, later the central meat market. In various colloquial expressions. Originally Smethefield, from Old English smethe "smooth" (see smooth (adj.)). Smithfield ham (1908, American English) is from a town of that name in Virginia.

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Smithfield, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 68
Housing Units (2000): 33
Land area (2000): 0.164916 sq. miles (0.427131 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.164916 sq. miles (0.427131 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45575
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.572120 N, 99.741350 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68976
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Headwords:
Smithfield, NE
Smithfield
Smithfield, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 11510
Housing Units (2000): 4674
Land area (2000): 11.423609 sq. miles (29.587009 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.014613 sq. miles (0.037848 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.438222 sq. miles (29.624857 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62520
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.509129 N, 78.346456 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27577
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Headwords:
Smithfield, NC
Smithfield
Smithfield, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 867
Housing Units (2000): 405
Land area (2000): 0.958536 sq. miles (2.482596 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.958536 sq. miles (2.482596 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72760
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.270853 N, 80.780493 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Smithfield, OH
Smithfield
Smithfield, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 214
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.475523 sq. miles (1.231598 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.475523 sq. miles (1.231598 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70226
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.473086 N, 90.292639 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61477
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Headwords:
Smithfield, IL
Smithfield
Smithfield, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 854
Housing Units (2000): 384
Land area (2000): 0.713742 sq. miles (1.848582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.713742 sq. miles (1.848582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71320
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.799664 N, 79.808197 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15478
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Headwords:
Smithfield, PA
Smithfield
Smithfield, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 102
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.133673 sq. miles (0.346211 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.133673 sq. miles (0.346211 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71364
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.385521 N, 85.255940 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40068
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Headwords:
Smithfield, KY
Smithfield
Smithfield, UT -- U.S. city in Utah
Population (2000): 7261
Housing Units (2000): 2159
Land area (2000): 4.305067 sq. miles (11.150071 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.305067 sq. miles (11.150071 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69640
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.835253 N, 111.828388 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84335
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Headwords:
Smithfield, UT
Smithfield
Smithfield, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 6324
Housing Units (2000): 2552
Land area (2000): 9.527243 sq. miles (24.675446 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.921639 sq. miles (2.387033 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.448882 sq. miles (27.062479 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73200
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.978767 N, 76.618578 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23430
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Headwords:
Smithfield, VA
Smithfield
Smithfield, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 177
Housing Units (2000): 98
Land area (2000): 0.251630 sq. miles (0.651719 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.251630 sq. miles (0.651719 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74788
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.496806 N, 80.561242 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 26437
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Headwords:
Smithfield, WV
Smithfield
Wikipedia
Smithfield

Smithfield may refer to:

Smithfield (Blacksburg, Virginia)

Smithfield is a plantation outside Blacksburg, Virginia built from 1772 to 1774 as a home by Col. William Preston. It was the birthplace of two Virginia Governors: James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd. The house remained a family home until 1959 when the home was donated to the APVA.

Smithfield (dog)

The Smithfield, Smithfield Collie or Smithfield Sheepdog is a type of herding dog. It is a large, strong dog of collie type. The Smithfield can be black, grey or red with a white collar, or wholly white and they always possess floppy-ears and shaggy hair on the body, face and legs. Two varieties exist, with one having a natural bobtail and the second with a longer tail. It was used for droving cattle in the south-east of England, especially the Smithfield Market in London, and although this breed of dog is believed to be extinct and was never recognised by any of the major kennel clubs before its extinction, dogs of similar type are shown under the same name in Tasmania, Australia.

Smithfield (Rosedale, Virginia)

Smithfield is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Rosedale, Russell County, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites. The main house dates to the 1850s, and is a two-story, five-bay, central passage plan, brick Greek Revival style dwelling. Among the other buildings in the district are a brick spring house, a brick acetylene house, frame meat house, a former school house, frame horse barn, frame sheep barn, cow barn, a milking parlor, and a shop. The contributing sites include an earlier house seat, three cemeteries, and the site of a slave house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Usage examples of "smithfield".

Vice-Commander-in-Chief Piet Fourie to take under his charge the districts of Bloemfontein, Bethulie, Smithfield, Rouxville, and Wepener, and to permit the burghers there, who had remained behind, to join us again.

Priory, but it was not until I had gone through Charterhouse Square and the congerie of narrow streets around Smithfield that eventually I came to a shopping precinct.

If we go by way of Charterhouse and Smithfield, we will be within the city faster than you know.

Gnarled strands of smoke rose upwards to filter and tease apart the morning light, like dozens of genies released from flanched bottles scattered from Smithfield to Ratcliff and for as far along the estuary as the eye could see.

They consisted of commandos from Bethulie, Rouxville, and Smithfield, under the orders of Olivier, with those colonials whom they had seduced from their allegiance.

Smithfield, Utah, Diann Thornley now lives in Ohio, where she was stationed during her active-duty career in the U.

Smithfield Meat Market, a man claiming to be the killer distributed a FLYER to the waiting hacks that outlined his motives for the series of gruesome killings.

A veritable menagerie of wild fowl, venison, stuffed turkey, and huge Smithfield hams, arrayed on long linen-draped tables on both sides of the parquet-floored sitting room, covered with precious oriental carpets, fell prey to the appetites of the ravenous horde.

Sikes struck, by way of Chiswell Street, into Barbican: thence into Long Lane, and so into Smithfield.

We were in Smithfield now, past the country club on the left, past the low reedy meadow that was a bird sanctuary, and the place where they used to have a cider mill, to Summer Street, almost to Smithfield Center.

She picked up Mavis' plate of Eggs Benedict and the Smithfield ham.

One of the aliens drew a bayonet and opened the Smithfield ham by cutting the top off, four digits for the can, four for the bayonet, He passed the can to Wes.

Then Fats had appeared, looking like the scalded and scraped carcass of a hippopotamus, and said he was taking a Smithfield ham out of the oven.

He adopted her entire family, unfolding for Duncan the mysteries of his diesel engines and his cotton candy machines and the odds on his games of chance, bringing Meg gaudy circus prizes for as long as she was a child, treating the baffled grandfather with elaborate old-world respect and sending Justine a great moldy Smithfield ham every Christmas.