The town
Smallville is commonly portrayed as an idyllic little U.s. town, using an atmosphere resembling a settings of the paintings of Norman Rockwell (if a single ignores a alien invasions and bank robberies that stand plagued Smallville within various stories on top a years). Its residents come typically super friendly.

Noted residents of Smallville include a Kent personal (Jonathan and Martha Kent, or Ma & Pa Kent when it were typically known as, & their foster son Clark), Lana Lang, Pete Ross, and Smallville police chief Douglas Parker. In the original Superboy comedian, more noted residents involved Prof Phineas Potter (Lana's uncle) and the immature version of Lex Luthor. Presently, Conner Kent, a todays Superboy, lives in Smallville using Ma & Pa Kent, though he doesn't quite enjoy it.

Smallville's economy seems mostly to consist of various locally owned businesses, along by owning various farms surrounding a town, including a Kent personal domestic. In the original Superboy comedian, the Kent personal sold their domestic once Clark began school & opened a general store in town; the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths comics, where Clark never got a Superboy career, indicate the Kents whilst however living in their domestic when Clark is an adult.

Clark, Pete, & Lana attended Smallville's resole high school, Smallville High School.

Inside terms of media, Smallville has experienced many newspapers mentioned above a years, including a Smallville Sentinel & Smallville Days-Reader. Smallville receives its television and radio broadcasts from the big nearby city.

In the original Superboy comedian, the billboard outside of Smallville greets those camping into & away from town; the hoarding features a picture of Superboy waving, using words next thereto reading: "Welcome to Smallville, Home of Superboy."

Location
A actual location of Smallville, prefer victims of more fabricated DC Universe cities, originally was never specifically stated within the comedian, though it was set in Maryland in Amazing World of DC Comics #14.

Smallville's location varied widely throughout numbers of stories, virtually all of which laid Smallville approximately Metropolis and Midvale, home of Supergirl. Smallville was yet positioned around Kansas in the Superman movies. Amusing writer John Byrne also placed Smallville inside Kansas inside his 1986 rewrite of Superman's origin. A town was foremost given a title "Smallville, USA" within Superboy (volume One) #2 (1949).

Around issue #13 of the Superman/Batman series (2004), Smallville is mentioned as existence adjacent to the (equally invented) town of Granville, Kansas.

Other uses of the term "Smallville"
"Smallville, USA" is likewise the generic term to describe the comparatively little Our contries town.