| history and facts
Powell is a city in Delaware County, Ohio, United States. The population was
6,247 at the 2000 census. The U.S. Census Bureau's official population estimate
as of 2005 was 10,504.
The community was first settled around 1801, two years before Ohio became a
state. It was named "Middlebury" at the time, because the first settlers came
from the Middlebury, Connecticut area. In 1857, Judge Thomas Powell established
the first post office in the community, and the residents decided to adopt his
name. Powell was finally incorporated as a municipality in 1947. The population
remained small until the late 1980s, when residential development expanding from
the northern Columbus metropolitan area reached Powell. In twenty years, the
population rose from less than 400 to over 6,000.
In July of 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Powell 18 on its list of
the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States.
The general Powell area is usually interpreted to mean not only the incorporated
City of Powell, but also the adjoining unincorporated areas of Liberty and
Orange townships.
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