It now forms a major part of Dale Earnhardt Boulevard, or North Carolina Highway 3.

An educational wing and fellowship hall were constructed in the 1960s, and the sanctuary was replaced with a brick structure in the 1990s.

The original sanctuary building still exists, having been moved to a site on Shiloh Church Road and converted to a private residence.

This church is located east of the Coddle Creek Reservoir on North Carolina Highway 73.

[3] In 1929, W. R. Odell School was built on the corner tract of land formed by the newly routed highways.

Organized in 1961, the department's "trial by fire" came on a winter night in 1963, when the gymnasium of the former Odell High School burned down.

The Odell Volunteer Fire Department is housed in a modern facility on Highway 73, and has expanded to provide First Responder service for the area.

In 2010, Odell Volunteer Fire Department built its first substation, a five-bay facility on Shiloh Church Road.

The station was designed to function as a fully stand-alone fire department, in anticipation of future annexation in the area by Concord, Kannapolis and/or Davidson.

This nursing facility was founded in the early 1960s by Mrs. Bertha Hartsell and Mrs. Florence Furr, neighbors and residents of the Odell School Community.

A major expansion in the 1980s doubled the number of beds in the facility, and was followed by a sale in 1990 to Kentucky-based Cardinal Health Care.

In 1995, Cardinal built a new facility near Kannapolis, North Carolina and transferred the nursing services out of the Odell School community.

His brother, Thomas Johnson assumed ownership in the late 1950s until the store closed in 1978, The building still stands, and is currently used as a residence.

Over the years, the service station has sold Gulf Oil, Union 76 and Phillips 66 gasoline and petroleum products and currently sells Marathon branded fuel.

The system was operated by the Johnson Family, who ran it from their boarding house on what is now Odell School Road.

The system was built in the years following World War I from surplus electrical equipment and telephone poles harvested from land in the community.

At its peak, some 50 families and 5 businesses were on the exchange, which took its "company" name from the nickname of Mrs. Johnson, who served as operator.

The "Tulin" exchange served to link widely separated farm families of the day, and connect them with medical, law enforcement and other vital services in the community.

[citation needed] The Cabarrus County seat of Concord is located some 11 miles east of Odell School.

To the west lie the North Mecklenburg towns of Huntersville and Davidson, located on the eastern bank of Lake Norman.

The community consists of a volunteer fire department, gas station, elementary school, and 1,100 residences.