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Punkin Center, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Karval census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80821. The Survey maps it on the Punkin Center quadrangle. It stands 5,364 feet above sea level.

Punkin Center within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Storms near this place

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Punkin Center in 44 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 34 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025HailPunkin Center-The report was from mPING.
August 2025HailPunkin Center-The report was from mPING.
August 2025HailPunkin Center-The report was from mPING.
August 2025HailPunkin Center-The report was from mPING.
August 2025HailPunkin Center-The report was from mPING.
July 2025HailPunkin Center-Report received via mPING.
July 2025HailPunkin Center-Report received via mPING.
July 2025HailPunkin Center-Report received via mPING.
September 2025HailPunkin Center-The report from was received through mPING.
July 2024HailPunkin Center-The report was from Twitter (X.com).
July 2024HailPunkin Center-The report was from Twitter (X.com).
August 2024Heavy RainPunkin Center-Total rainfall of 3.97 inches fell.
August 2024Flash FloodPunkin Center-No specific details were reported by the storm chaser.
July 2023HailPunkin Center-The hail broke the windows of a home.
April 2021Tornado (EF0)Punkin Center-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was observed.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Punkin Center-A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Punkin Center-A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPunkin Center-Penny size hail was also reported.
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Punkin Center-A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindPunkin Center-Intense winds uprooted large trees and downed some power lines.
August 2025HailPunkin Center-no account filed
August 2025HailPunkin Center-no account filed
August 2025HailPunkin Center-no account filed
April 2025HailPunkin Center-no account filed
July 2024HailPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2024HailPunkin Center-no account filed
July 2023HailPunkin Center-no account filed
July 2022HailPunkin Center-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2022HailPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2022HailPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2022HailPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2022HailPunkin Center-no account filed
April 2021HailPunkin Center-no account filed
April 2021HailPunkin Center-no account filed
May 2021HailPunkin Center-no account filed
August 2020HailPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2019HailPunkin Center-no account filed
July 2019HailPunkin Center-no account filed
May 2018HailPunkin Center-no account filed
June 2017HailPunkin Center-no account filed
August 2017HailPunkin Center-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindPunkin Center-no account filed
August 1996HailPunkin Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Forder11.8 miles13
Karval11.9 miles13
Wezel (historical)13.5 miles12
Clifford22.8 miles9
Hugo23.1 miles8
Boyero23.2 miles12
Limon28.4 miles15
Genoa31.3 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Punkin CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7260428The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 195180. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.