Powell
Powell is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 901. Powell is located atop Sand Mountain. Originally incorporated as Powell's Crossroads in the 1960s, it had shortened its name to Powell by the 1990 U.S. Census.Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.
- Type: Village with 901 residents
- Description: city in Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “Powell, Alabama” and “Powells Crossroads”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rainsville and Sylvania.
Rainsville
Village
Photo: Shannon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rainsville is a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, Rainsville had a population of 5,505. Rainsville is located on top of Sand Mountain, a southern extension of the Cumberland Plateau. Rainsville is situated 3½ miles southeast of Powell.
Sylvania
Village
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.
Sylvania is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. Established in 1836 and incorporated in October 1967, As of the 2020 census, Sylvania had a population of 1,790. Sylvania is located atop Sand Mountain. The first post office was built in 1977. Sylvania is situated 5 miles northeast of Powell.
Shiloh
Hamlet
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.
Shiloh is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1962. At the 2020 census, the population was 321. Shiloh is located atop Sand Mountain. Shiloh is situated 5 miles south of Powell.
Powell
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: DeKalb County, Alabama, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.53398° or 34° 32′ 2″ northLongitude
-85.88859° or 85° 53′ 19″ westPopulation
901Elevation
1,129 feet (344 metres)Open location code
866PG4M6+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 153596976OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4084691Wikidata ID
Q66676
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Powell” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باول”
- Asturian: “Powell”
- Basque: “Powell”
- Catalan: “Powell”
- Cebuano: “Powell”
- Central Kurdish: “پاول، ئەلاباما”
- Chechen: “Павелл”
- Chinese: “Powell”
- Chinese: “鲍威尔”
- Dutch: “Powell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پول”
- French: “Powell”
- German: “Powell”
- Gilaki: “پاول”
- Haitian: “Powell”
- Ido: “Powell, Alabama”
- Ido: “Powell”
- Indonesian: “Powell, Alabama”
- Indonesian: “Powell”
- Irish: “Powell”
- Italian: “Powell”
- Ladin: “Powell”
- Mazanderani: “پاول”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Powell”
- Newari: “पोवेल, अलाबामा”
- Newari: “पोवेल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Powell”
- Norwegian: “Powell”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Powell”
- Persian: “پاول، الاباما”
- Persian: “پاول”
- Polish: “Powell”
- Portuguese: “Powell”
- Serbian: “Powell”
- Serbian: “Пауел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Powell, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Powell”
- South Azerbaijani: “پوول، آلاباما”
- Spanish: “Powell”
- Swedish: “Powell, Alabama”
- Swedish: “Powell”
- Tatar: “Павелл”
- Ukrainian: “Пауелл”
- Urdu: “پاول، الاباما”
- Uzbek: “Powell”
- Vietnamese: “Powell, Alabama”
- Vietnamese: “Powell”
- Volapük: “Powell”
- Welsh: “Powell, Alabama”
- Welsh: “Powell”
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