Historic Smithville Park

The North Branch Rancocas Creek is a 31-mile-long (50 km) tributary of Rancocas Creek in southwestern New Jersey in the United States.The creek starts in the Pine Barrens of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest and Fort Dix Military Reservation, near Browns Mills.From its confluence with Rancocas Creek, tidewater extends upstream to the upper end of Mount Holly.

Smithville was a village in Eastampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. It was originally established as Shreveville in 1831 by Jonathan and Samuel Shreve as a textile village on the Rancocas Creek. It was purchased by Hezekiah Bradley Smith in 1865 and renamed to Smithville. The Smithville post office was established in 1866.