Powell, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1992

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• West Orange Road-Thomas Bridgelisted 2002

Powell grew from 11,500 to 14,163 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1901 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Powell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1967 USGS Powell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,561 specimens collected within 10 miles of Powell between 1850 and 1975: 2,416 Animalia, 79 Plantae, 61 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	unnamed	1896	F. L. Stevens	Flint.
	Dothidea Fr., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
	Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1850	Kugel, B. (Burt)	near Selma, Ohio, USA
	Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1860	Ricke, A. S.	Carlisle, Ohio, USA
	Vernonia maxima Small	1871	Collector unspecified	Scioto
	Centronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)	1872	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
	Ophioglossum vulgatum L.	1873	Hussey, J.
	Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1874	not recorded	Sugar Grove, Ohio, USA
	Branta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)	1874	not recorded	Lake Erie, Ohio, USA
	Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)	1874	Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)	Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
	Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1874	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA

All 2,561 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Powell: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061569. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.