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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Powell, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43065. It stands on Tylers Run. The Survey maps it on the Powell quadrangle. 14,163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Powell within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

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. 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.

YearPeople Change
201011,500
202014,163+2,663 (+23%)

Then and now

1901 to 1992

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.

Topographic sheet of Powell, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Powell, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 sheets

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,561 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA

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

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shawnee Division QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Shawnee Division QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

24 since 1998

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Thunderstorm WindPowell1 hurt, $40,000Trees were reported down around the area due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A portion of the roof was peeled off of the Olentangy High School gym. One woman was injured when a tree fell onto her home causing severe damage to the roof. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital for possible concussion.
April 2003HailPowell$65,000,000Hail up to the size of golf balls affected the north side of the Columbus metro area and southern Delaware county. Hail was extensive from Dublin, through Worthington and Powell, to Westerville. Trees and shrubs were stripped of their foliage and cars and homes sustained significant hail damage. The hail covered the ground in some locations up to six inches deep in Worthington in northern Franklin county and near the Polaris Mall in southern Delaware county.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPowell$20,000Numerous trees and large limbs up to four inches in diameter were downed near the Polaris Mall.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPowell$10,000Winds gusted to 70 mph downing trees and power lines.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindPowell$5,000Several trees were downed in the Powell area.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindPowell$5,000Trees were blown down.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindPowell$5,000Large limbs were downed across the southern part of the county.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindPowell$4,000A few trees were downed.
March 2007FloodPowell$3,000Several roads were flooded in Scioto Township. Blues Creek rose out of its banks.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPowell$3,000Trees were downed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPowell$3,000A thunderstorm produced strong winds knocking down a few trees and power lines.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPowell$2,000Two large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2007HailPowell$2,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindPowell$1,000A tree was downed in Liberty Township due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2020Flash FloodPowell-High water was reported near the intersection of Sawmill Parkway and Brewster Lane.
February 2019FloodPowell-State Route 315 in the vicinity of State Route 750 had standing water of 6 to 8 inches on the road.
May 2012Heavy RainPowell-About 3 inches of standing water was reported on roads in the area due to heavy rain. Some water was spilling onto the roads from adjacent fields.
June 2011Heavy RainPowell-High water was reported over a road due to heavy rain.
April 2026HailPowell-no account filed
April 2023HailPowell-no account filed
June 2011HailPowell-no account filed
June 2011HailPowell-no account filed
June 2009HailPowell-no account filed
April 2006HailPowell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wingate Farms1.8 miles16
Bridlespur2.4 miles16
Trails End2.6 miles16
North Orange2.8 miles16
Shawnee Hills3.1 miles15
Village At North Falls3.1 miles16
Nelson Farms3.4 miles16
Hidden Springs3.5 miles16

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on PowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233834The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

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.