BlockBefore

Pumpkin Center, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Cloud Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64423. The Survey maps it on the Barnard quadrangle. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.

Pumpkin Center within Nodaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

456 words on this township

Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on White Cloud Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on White Cloud Township - 456 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkoe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Barnard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dagun QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elliot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nodaway County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pumpkin Center in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 4 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 1999Tornado (F1)Pumpkin Center$250,000The same tornado that formed 3 miles NW of Fillmore (Andrew County) continued northeast and dissipated near Pumpkin Center. Damage to barns, outbuildings, trees and power lines occurred on the west side of Pumpkin Center.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPumpkin Center$2,000Six to seven power lines were reported down across Route H, south of Route A. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2019Flash FloodPumpkin Center-Water was over the roadway, prompting MoDOT to close the road.
September 2014Flash FloodPumpkin Center-Several areas across Nodaway County received several inches of rain, which led to many roads being impassible for a short time near Barnard, Skidmore, Arkoe, and Burlington Junction.
September 2014Flash FloodPumpkin Center-Several areas across Nodaway County received several inches of rain, which led to many roads being impassible for a short time along Highway 71 near Barnard.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPumpkin Center-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph. Three willow and cottonwood tree trunks, 12 to 15 inches in diameter were snapped.
May 2011Flash FloodPumpkin Center-Nearly one foot of water was reported flowing over Highway A.
March 2020HailPumpkin Center-no account filed
March 2020HailPumpkin Center-no account filed
May 2010HailPumpkin Center-no account filed
June 2008HailPumpkin Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nodaway 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
Whitecloud1.6 miles12
Barnard2.9 miles12
Arkoe4.5 miles11
Guilford7.3 miles13
Bell Grove7.5 miles11
Bedison8.1 miles11
Monastery8.1 miles13
Graham9.0 miles11

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 Pumpkin CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107427270The 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 741178. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.