Smithville Baptist Church
Smithville Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 26178.
WV, 26178Smithville Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Find Smithville Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Smithville Baptist Church
It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 49.8% (34.0–65.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Depression: 30.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.8–38.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Smithville Baptist Church
- Cedar Grove Church — 2 mi away in Harrisville, WV
- Hardman Church — 2.5 mi away
- Deem Chapel — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 3.6 mi away
- Twomile Church — 3.7 mi away
- Bethel Chapel — 3.8 mi away
- King Knob Church — 3.9 mi away in Harrisville, WV
- Bethany Church — 4.2 mi away in Harrisville, WV
- Log Church — 4.6 mi away in Harrisville, WV
- Prosperity Church — 4.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Straight Creek Church — 5.3 mi away
- Pine Twist Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Elizabeth, WV
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 11.1 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 12.4 mi away
- South Fork Baptist Church — 15.1 mi away in West Union, WV