Use indigenous to describe a plant, animal or person that is native or original to an area. Though Switzerland is known for its chocolates, chocolate, which comes from the cocoa plant, is indigenous to South America. Indigenous, aboriginal, and native all mean the same thing. Aboriginal, however, is commonly used in connection with Australia, and native with North America. The most neutral of the three terms, indigenous comes from the Latin word, indigena meaning a native..
Smithers depends heavily on US 60 as its main artery. About the area Smithers lies along the Kanawha river and a small portion of the town lies in Kanawha county. The city is named after the family who were early settlers to the area and who owned over 2200 acres of coal-rich land under the name of Peabody Coal Fields. It was incorporated in the 1930's.
Smith County's outline is almost a quadrangle being 30 miles north and south, and 22 miles east and west. The area is approximately 660 square miles. It has the following counties for boundaries: Scott to the north, Jasper to the east, Jones and Covington to the south, and Simpson and Rankin to the west.