Smithville, Ohio

Green Local Schools is a school district serving portions of central Wayne County, Ohio, including Smithville and Marshallville. The district's superintendent is the 2017 Ohio Principal of the Year Dean Frank.

Smithville High School is a public high school in Smithville, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Green Local Schools district. Their nickname is the Smithies, which was a nickname given to the school's teams by an early sports editor of the Wooster Daily Record. The colors of green and white came from the town's location within Green Township. Long-time athletic director and coach Wilbur Berkey designed the horseshoe and anvil logo the school uses.In 1955, Marshallville's district was merged with Smithville's. This was done in order to prevent the transporting of Marshallville students across Orrville's district into Dalton, where Marshallville had sent their students since their school's closure in 1938. The merger enabled Smithville to start up a football program in the WCAL. The Marshallville Tigers had previously competed in the WCAL as well. Due to the recent success of all three teams, Smithville's football team also has a strong rivalry with both the Dalton High School Bulldogs and the Waynedale High School Golden Bears. All three schools have combined to either share or outright win the WCAL football title 44 times from 1960 to 2019, and in that time frame there have only been 16 seasons where none of the three have contributed to a football championship.In 2014, Smithville High School, Greene Middle School, Smithville Elementary and Marshallville Elementary were all combined into one new K-12 building, and the old buildings demolished.

Wayne County Schools Career Center is a public vocational school located in Smithville, Ohio. The school derives its name from the fact that it primarily serves students from the public school districts and private schools located in Wayne County, Ohio.

Located in Smithville, Ohio, Oak Grove Mennonite Church is an historical church that has made a significant contribution to the larger Mennonite denomination, currently pastored by Doug Zehr. Oak Grove started as an Amish church in 1818, as many Amish started settling in Wayne County, Ohio. From humble beginnings the church grew and built a meetinghouse in 1862, one of the earliest of such meetinghouses the Amish have built. A notable leader of the Amish church at this time was bishop John K. Yoder, who led the church from 1855–1906. Bishop Yoder's main contribution to Oak Grove was his progressive attitude toward Amish doctrine. In 1862, John K. Yoder moderated the first meeting of the Diener Versammlungen. Diener Versammlungen, from 1862–1878 were denominational meetings in which Amish ministers met to discuss changes in the Ordnung. The very idea of a churchwide meeting for Amish was revolutionary; however, once the meetings started, it became clear that the majority of the leaders there were more change-minded than interested in keeping with tradition. Thus, conservative opposition was given a chance to speak, and the opposition gave the leaders a clear ultimatum. After 1863, many of the conservative ministers removed themselves from the meeting, and as such, John K. Yoder led toward progress, forming an "orphan congregation" which became Amish-Mennonite. With John K. Yoder as Oak Grove's bishop, it was seen as the leading congregation in which as many as 5,000 Ohio Amish became known as Amish Mennonites. After several decades of relative obscurity, Amish-Mennonites later dropped Amish from their name and joined "Old" Mennonites in the Ohio Conference of the Mennonite Church. Theologian John Howard Yoder is from this church. Lead Pastors: Christian Brandt: 1818–1866 David Zook: unknown Peter Schrock: unknown–1846 Solomon Zook: unknown–1870 Peter Nafziger: unknown–1841 John Fertenwald: 1831–1849 Joseph Frey: unknown Hannes Yoder: unknown–1850 Emmanuel Hochstetler: 1855–1862 Jacob Yoder: 1850–1858 Peter Blough: 1855–unknown Christian Nafziger: 1844–1864 Christian Schantz: unknown John K. Yoder: 1855–1906 Christian Conrad: 1859–1890 Christian K. Yoder: 1861–1871 Jonathon Smucker: 1861–1887 John Smiley: 1866–1878 D.Z. Yoder: 1872–1929 David Hostetler: 1880–1889 Isaac Miller: 1891–1894 Benjamin Gerig: 1895–1913 J.S. Gerig: 1896–1925 C.Z. Yoder: 1904–1930s John K. Yoder's son, John Smiley his father-in-law Peter R. Lantz: 1909–1927 Elkhart Institute Jesse N. Smucker:1931–1936 Princeton Seminary for one year, Hartford Theological Seminary William G. Detweiler: 1938–1947 Temple University. Started Mennonite radio show The Calvary Hour. First pastor of Smithville Mennonite Virgil O. Gerig: 1947–1960 College of Wooster, economics, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, Michigan State, Harvard Divinity School, Princeton Theological Seminary Robert Otto: 1960–1965 Goshen College, Goshen Biblical Seminary Lotus Troyer: 1965–1971 Goshen College Peter Wiebe: 1972–1984 Goshen College and Goshen Biblical Seminary Jim Schrag: 1985–1994 Bethel College KS, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Dennis Schmidt: 1994–1996 Norma Duerkson: 1993–2008 Bethel College KS, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Will Shertzer: 2008–2009 Interim pastor Doug Zehr: 2009–present

Wayne County Airport (IATA: BJJ, ICAO: KBJJ, FAA LID: BJJ) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) northeast of the central business district of Wooster, a city in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Wayne County. Prior to its construction sometime after 1972, the city of Wooster was served by Wooster Municipal Airport 3 miles southwest of the current Wayne County Airport.

Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 116,894. Its county seat is Wooster. The county is named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Wayne County comprises the Wooster, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The Wooster Municipal Airport was a general aviation airport serving Wooster, Ohio, USA. It was built in the 1920s and was closed sometime between 1968 and 1972 and was replaced by Wayne County Airport 3 miles away on North Honeytown Road near Smithville, Ohio. The airport originally had sod runways but received a 3,100 foot paved runway in the 1950s. After closing, the runway was retained as a city street, now named Old Airport Road in Wooster.

Green Township is one of the sixteen townships of Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 12,194 people in the township, 7,078 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.

Wayne College is a satellite campus of the University of Akron in Orrville, Ohio. It offers the first two years of general bachelor's degree coursework for students who plan to complete their degrees at the Akron campus or other colleges and universities. The college also offers two bachelor's programs including organizational supervision and social work. An MBA is also available at the campus through The University of Akron College of Business Administration.

Honeytown is an unincorporated community in Wooster Township, Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. Apple Creek flows past the town site.A post office called Honeytown was established in 1884, and closed in 1885.

East Union is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

Wayne Township is one of the sixteen townships of Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 4,005 people in the township.