Do you know of Powell ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Powell. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Powell.
Our sources for Powell (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Powell other than they indicate that Powell would be found somewhere in Phillips County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1905.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Powell ...
We found 43 communities that share the name Powell.
Within Kansas, the name Powell is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 43 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 43 communities, 42 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Mohave County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Powell [Mohave County].
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Powell [Craighead County].
- Madison County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Powell [Madison County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Powell [Marion County].
- Colorado
- Las Animas County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Powell [Las Animas County].
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Powell [Logan County].
- Florida
- Hernando County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Powell [Hernando County].
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Powell [Jefferson Parish].
- West Feliciana Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Powell [West Feliciana Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Powell.
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Coahoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Powell [Coahoma County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Powell [Jefferson County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Grand Forks County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Powell [Grand Forks County].
- Ohio
- Coshocton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Powell [Coshocton County].
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Powell [Delaware County].
- Muskingum County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Powell [Muskingum County].
- Oklahoma
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Powell [Marshall County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Powell [Knox County].
- Lawrence County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Powell [Lawrence County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Powell [Pittsylvania County].
- Washington
- Stevens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Powell [Stevens County].
- West Virginia
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Powell [Marion County].
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Powell [Park County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Powell ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Powell:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Powell - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Phillips County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Phillips County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Powell could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |