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Smithville is a city on the Little Platte River, primarily in Clay County, Missouri (extending into Platte County), in the northern Kansas City metropolitan area.

Smithville is named after Humphrey 'Yankee' Smith, who settled at the site in 1822; the town was originally known as 'Smith's Mill' before the easier-to-pronounce Smithville won out.

Smithville had a population of 10,406 at the 2020 census, more than quadrupling its 1990 population of 2,525 as Kansas City's suburbs pushed north.

At the 2010 census, Smithville had 3,115 households, and the city covers about 15.7 square miles along the Little Platte River.

Smithville is best known for Smithville Lake, a 7,190-acre reservoir built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Little Platte River just east of town, with about 175 miles of shoreline and 5,000 acres of surrounding public land.

Smithville Dam was authorized in 1965, completed in 1977, and the lake began filling in 1979; it was built primarily for flood control after the Little Platte repeatedly flooded the area, and it also supplies drinking water to Smithville and Plattsburg.

The Jerry L. Litton Visitor Center beside Smithville Dam tells the area's history and honors the Missouri congressman who died in a plane crash on election night in 1976 after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

Silver screen stars Wallace Beery and his brother Noah Beery Sr. were born and raised near Smithville before their Hollywood careers.

Smithville's Downtown Smithville Historic District and the Aker Cemetery are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Students in Smithville attend the Smithville School District, whose teams at Smithville High School are known as the Warriors.