Powell, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75144. The Survey maps it on the Powell quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPowell fell from 105 to 99 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 105 | |
| 2010 | 136 | +31 (+30%) |
| 2020 | 99 | -37 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Powell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
223 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Powell between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,802 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 81 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 69 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 43 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1112231 |
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1212043 |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1112193 |
| 7 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NW 2020 & HWY 22 ( JIMMY DADE) |
| 7 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09042010 WILDFIRE |
| 30 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13363 |
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | 1 hurt, $1,000 | Emergency management reported plywood being blown through a bedroom window, casing minor cuts and scratches to the head and arm of one person. On the next door property, tree limbs were broken, and a barn sustained some damage. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | $1,000,000 | Twenty-four to twenty-six train cars were derailed by high thunderstorm winds near the intersection of Highway 31 and SE CR 0080 in Powell, stretching west along the railroad towards Corsicana. |
| January 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Powell | $90,000 | The Navarro County Emergency Manager reported a narrow damage path near Powell. The damage began near State Highway 31 and ended near Navarro County Road 2120NE. Damage included numerous large trees and a large fuel tank was thrown for over 50 yards. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | $15,000 | Emergency management reported trees down and a metal roof blown from a home near Powell. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | $5,000 | Emergency management reported trees down and roof damage approximately 2 miles northeast of the city of Powell, TX. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | - | Trees and large tree limbs were knocked down by thunderstorm winds on FM 1129, north of Highway 31 near Roane. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Powell | - | Quarter sized hail was reported 1 mile southwest of Powell. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Powell | - | Hail up to quarter size was reported in Powell. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elm Flat | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Roane | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Kerens | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bazette | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Goodlow Park | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Pettys Chapel | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Mildred | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Montfort | 7.4 miles | 9 |
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 Powell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972875 | The 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 1344450. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.



