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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Sanborn quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Sanborn quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Sanborn quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Punkin Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Karval quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
44 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from mPING. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from mPING. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from mPING. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from mPING. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from mPING. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | Report received via mPING. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | Report received via mPING. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | Report received via mPING. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report from was received through mPING. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from Twitter (X.com). |
| July 2024 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The report was from Twitter (X.com). |
| August 2024 | Heavy Rain | Punkin Center | - | Total rainfall of 3.97 inches fell. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Punkin Center | - | No specific details were reported by the storm chaser. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | The hail broke the windows of a home. |
| April 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Punkin Center | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was observed. |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Punkin Center | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed. |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Punkin Center | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Punkin Center | - | Penny size hail was also reported. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Punkin Center | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Punkin Center | - | Intense winds uprooted large trees and downed some power lines. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Punkin Center | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7260428 | The 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.






