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Pumpkin Center, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

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Coordinates: 35°40′55″N 95°47′4″W / 35.68194°N 95.78444°W / 35.68194; -95.78444
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Pumpkin Center
Unincorporated community
Pumpkin Center is located in Oklahoma
Pumpkin Center
Pumpkin Center
Location within the state of Oklahoma
Pumpkin Center is located in the United States
Pumpkin Center
Pumpkin Center
Pumpkin Center (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°40′55″N 95°47′4″W / 35.68194°N 95.78444°W / 35.68194; -95.78444
CountryUnited States
StateOklahoma
CountyOkmulgee
Elevation
659 ft (201 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID1100768[1]

Pumpkin Center is an unincorporated community in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It is about 10 miles northeast of the city of Okmulgee, Oklahoma,[1] taking N 330 Rd. north off of US Highway 62.[2]

This is not to be confused with the Pumpkin Center located in Comanche County, Oklahoma which is about 10 miles east of Lawton,[3] or with the Pumpkin Center located in Muskogee County, Oklahoma which is about 14 miles east of the city of Muskogee,[4] or with the Pumpkin Center located in Cherokee County, Oklahoma which is about 7.5 miles northeast of Braggs.[5]

No information appears on the origins of the name; however, “Pumpkin Center” as a town name was widely publicized by one Cal Stewart, who was a popular spoken-word recording artist in the late 1890s and early 1900s.[6] He frequently played the character of a gullible individual by the name of Uncle Josh Weathersby who hailed from the fictional town of "Pumpkin Center" or "Punkin Center".[6] The recordings described life in Pumpkin Center, as well as the character’s collisions with modernity in New York City.[6] Perhaps as a result, no less than 23 towns called "Pumpkin Center" exist in the US, scattered among at least 15 states.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Pumpkin Center". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ "Pumpkin Center, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma". Google Maps. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  3. ^ "Pumpkin Center". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  4. ^ "Pumpkin Center". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  5. ^ "Pumpkin Center, Cherokee County, Oklahoma". Google Maps. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media". Jacob Smith, University of California Press, 2008, p28 (retrieved on the Google Books website). Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  7. ^ "Pumpkin Center". Fascinating Names. Retrieved June 23, 2020.


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