Powell was a railroad station and settlement in Mohave County, Arizona, United States from 1883 to 1890.
Powell was a station on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, at the point where the railroad began crossing the lower Mohave Valley to the Colorado River bridge at the station at Eastbridge, Arizona southeast of Needles, California.
[2] It had a post office from October 11, 1883 until it was discontinued July 9, 1886, in favor of Mohave City.
Finally they changed the railroad route southward Beal to Mellen, where from 1889 to May 1890 they built the Red Rock Bridge, a cantilever bridge, on rock foundations, unlike the previous site.
[5]: 82 The site of Powell lies under the waters of Goose Lake in Topock Marsh near where the remnant of the old rail bed descends into the waters of the marsh.