Pumpkin Center, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Pumpkin Center is an unincorporated community in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is about 14 miles east of the city of Muskogee.[1]

Pumpkin Center, Oklahoma
Pumpkin Center, Oklahoma
Location within the state of Oklahoma
Pumpkin Center, Oklahoma
Pumpkin Center, Oklahoma (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°42′46″N 95°7′38″W
CountryUnited States
StateOklahoma
CountyMuskogee
Elevation
597 ft (182 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID1100769[1]

This is not to be confused with the Pumpkin Center located in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma which is about 10 miles northeast of the city of Okmulgee,[2] or with the Pumpkin Center located in Comanche County, Oklahoma which is about 10 miles east of Lawton,[2] or with the Pumpkin Center located in Cherokee County, Oklahoma which is about 7.5 miles northeast of Braggs.[3]

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.[4] 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".[4] The recordings described life in Pumpkin Center, as well as the character’s collisions with modernity in New York City.[4] Perhaps as a result, no less than 23 towns called "Pumpkin Center" exist in the US, scattered among at least 15 states.[5]

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