Powells or Powell's may refer to:

Places

Powell Islands Alifushi (Dhivehi: އަލިފުށި) is one of the inhabited islands of Raa Atoll in the Maldives. History Powell Islands Alifushi and Etthingili were named as the Powell Islands by Captain Robert Moresby after Lieutenant F.F. Powell, who assis ...

(Powells), Raa Atoll, Maldives

Cities, towns, communities

Powells Corners, Ontario Powells or Powell's may refer to: Places * Powell Islands (Powells), Raa Atoll, Maldives Cities, towns, communities * Powells Corners, Ontario, Canada United States * Powells Crossroads, Tennessee * Powells Point, North Carolina * Powellton, ...

, Canada

United States

Powells Crossroads, Tennessee Powells Crossroads is a town in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,322 at the 2010 census, up from 1,286 in 2000. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN- GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Powells Crossroads is loca ...

Powells Point, North Carolina Powells Point is an unincorporated community in Currituck County, North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It ...

Powellton, California Powellton was an unincorporated community in Butte County, California Butte County () is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. In the 2020 census, its population was 211,632. The county seat is Oroville. But ...

, formerly called Powell's Ranch

Watercourses, rivers, creeks

Powell's Creek (Prince George County, Virginia) Powell's Creek is a tributary of the James River on the south side of the James River in Prince George County, Virginia, United States. The creek borders James River National Wildlife Refuge near Garysville, Virginia. History In 1730, a tob ...

, United States * Powells Creek, a river in

Prince William County Prince William County is located on the Potomac River in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population sits at 482,204, making it Virginia's second-most populous county. Its county seat is the independent city of Manassas ...

, Virginia, United States *

Powells Creek (Sydney) Powells Creek, a southern tributary of the Parramatta River, is an urban stream west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, Australia. It flows through Sydney Olympic Park and joins Parramatta River at Homebush Bay. Ecology Powells Creek begins ...

, Australia

Mathematics

Powell's method Powell's method, strictly Powell's conjugate direction method, is an algorithm proposed by Michael J. D. Powell for finding a local minimum In mathematical analysis, the maxima and minima (the respective plurals of maximum and minimum) of a f ...

, an algorithm for finding a local minimum of a function *

Powell's dog leg method Powell's dog leg method, also called Powell's hybrid method, is an iterative optimisation algorithm for the solution of non-linear least squares problems, introduced in 1970 by Michael J. D. Powell.Powell (1970) Similarly to the Levenberg–Marquar ...

, an iterative optimization

Other uses

Powell's Books Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of ...