Smyth County

Smyth County considered rezoning 48,000 acres from Agricultural to Agricultural Rural in 2016, increasing the development potential
Source: Smyth County, WebGIS

Smyth County in 1856, as the Virginia and Tennessee brought the first railroad to Southwest Virginia
Source: Library of Congress, Map & profile of the Virginia & Tennessee Rail Road (William Willis Blackford, 1856)

Links

• Smyth County Home Page
• Appalachian Regional Commission (one of 23 counties and seven independent cities in Virginia that belong to the federal-state partnership)
• Census Bureau Profile - Smyth County
• Economic development partnership: Virginia's aCorridor
• Governing
• Saltville, Virginia: A Company Town Without a Company (August, 2012)
• Media
• The Mountain Laurel
• The Muck Dam Disaster: Christmas 1924 (December, 1988)
• Smyth County News & Messenger
• Museum of the Middle Appalachians
• New River Notes - Smyth County
• Parks/Forests/Lakes/Refuges
• Appalachian National Scenic Trail
• Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area
• Hungry Mother Lake
• Hungry Mother State Park
• Hemlock Haven Conference Center
• Planning District Commission: Mount Rogers Planning District Commission
• Reline America
• Science
  • Chemical Plants Leave Unexpected Legacy for Two Virginia Rivers, New Series, Vol. 198, No. 4321 (December 9, 1977)
• Smyth County Chamber of Commerce
• Smyth County Historical & Museum Society
• Southwest Virginia Heritage Guide
• Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium - Smyth County
• Towns:
• Chilhowie
• Marion
• Saltville (also a "child" of Washington County, according to the Commission on Local Government)
• Tri-Cities, TN/VA (Regional All-America City award)
• VAGenWeb - Smyth County (genealogy/history)
• Virginia Department of Forestry - Smyth County
• Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development - Appalachian Regional Commission
• Virginia Economic Development - Smyth County
• Virginia Employment Commission - Smyth County
• Virginia Tourism Corporation - Blue Ridge Highlands
• Virginia Water Resources Research Center
• Mercury Contamination in Virginia Waters: History, Issues, and Options (Special Report No. 8, March 1979)