Newell is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northern Hancock County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River.

Hugh Newell, the son of a pioneer from nearby New Manchester (then called Pughtown) became the owner of the site in the 1800s.

[4] In 1891, an entrepreneurial group from Pittsburgh bought out the farms of John Newell and J. Bentley Newell, descendants of Hugh, as well as William McDonald, the Wells family, and the Moore family, with the intentions of surverying the primarily flat banks for the development of a large industrial complex.

[4] The town of Newell was laid out by the North American Manufacturing Company in 1902 after they bought the tract from the United States Steel Corporation, who sat on the land in fear of establishing a steel mill after the Panic of 1893.

[4] In 1905, the Homer Laughlin China Company, located across the Ohio River in East Liverpool, Ohio, established what would be the largest pottery factory in the world at the time at a site in Newell, and the Newell Toll Bridge was constructed across the river to connect the towns.

[4] Waterford Park and the William E. Wells House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.