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Powell

Powell, formerly known as Powell Station, is a census-designated place in . The area is located in the Emory Road corridor, just north of , southeast of , and east of .
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  • Type: Town with 13,800 residents
  • Description: unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, United States
  • Also known as: “Powell Station”, “Powell, Tennessee”, “Powell, TN”, and “Powells Station”
  • Postal code: 37849

Places of Interest

Highlights include Powell High School and Crown College.

School building
Photo: Powell2011, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a high school located in Powell, Tennessee, just north of . It is part of the . The first high school in Powell was established in 1874 and was called Perkins High School.

University building
is an independent Baptist Bible college, featuring a trade school, seminary, language school, and music conservatory in Powell, .

Historic site
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The , also known as the Powell Airplane, is a built in 1930 in the shape of an airplane. Located on Clinton Highway in Powell, an unincorporated community in , it is on the National Register of Historic Places. is situated 1½ miles south of Powell.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heiskell and Claxton.

Suburb
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is an unincorporated community in and counties, , United States. It is the location of a post office, assigned ZIP code 37754. is situated 4 miles northwest of Powell.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in in the U.S. state of . The name "Claxton" is generally applied to the unincorporated part of Anderson County south of the city of and northeast of the city of , centered on the intersection of Clinton Highway with State Route 170. is situated 4½ miles west of Powell.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in northern , , in the southeastern United States. Although not a census-designated place, the populations of the two ZIP codes that serve Fountain City— 37918 and 37912— were 36,815 and 18,695, respectively, as of the 2000 U.S. census. is situated 5 miles east of Powell.

Powell

Latitude
36.03175° or 36° 1′ 54″ north
Longitude
-84.02797° or 84° 1′ 41″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
997 feet (304 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US TNO
Open location code
868Q2XJC+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153916135
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4651138
Wiki­data ID
Q7236054
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Volapük—“Powell” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “鮑威爾”
  • Chinese: “鲍威尔”
  • French: “Powell”
  • Gilaki: “پاول (تنسي)”
  • Gilaki: “پاول”
  • Italian: “Powell”
  • Ladin: “Powell”
  • Persian: “پاول، تنسی”
  • Persian: “پاول”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوول، تنسی”
  • Volapük: “Powell (TN)”
  • Volapük: “Powell, Tennessee”
  • Volapük: “Powell, TN”
  • Volapük: “Powell”

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Highlights include Fire Station Number 21 and Powell Brickyard.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Powell”. Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.