Putnam, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
240 ft 70 m190 ft 55 m160 ft 50 m110 ft 35 m64 ft 19 m39 ft 12 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Putnam sits at about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 45 m
most residents: 57–220 ft
Lowest
39 ft 12 m
on the southwest side
Highest
240 ft 70 m
on the east side
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Putnam spans about 201 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 140 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 240 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 39 ft12 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Putnam | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (09A) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 134 ft41 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Marengo County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 172 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.0227° N, 88.0314° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Butler/Choctaw County (09A) 134 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 36784
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Thomasville380 ft
- Nanafalia210 ft
- Myrtlewood200 ft
- Sweet Water180 ft
- Coffeeville180 ft
- Lisman160 ft
- Needham160 ft
- Butler140 ft
- Putnam140 ft
- Toxey120 ft
- Pennington76 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama534th highest of 595
- Towns in Marengo County9th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hill Mountain, Choctaw County496 ft
- Lingo Mountain480 ft
- Campbell Mountain400 ft
- Dunagan Hill357 ft
- Owl Hill330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Putnam is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.