Putnam, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,020 ft 310 m870 ft 265 m560 ft 170 m250 ft 75 m94 ft 29 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Putnam sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 220–860 ft
Lowest
94 ft 29 m
on the south side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the southwest side
Average
500 ft 150 m
all land inside town boundaries
Putnam spans about 1,236 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 94 ft29 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Putnam | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (4B6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi north of the town boundaries | 274 ft84 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft150 m |
| Nearest peak Black Mountain, 6.2 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 2,650 ft805 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Washington County, New York, United States
- Population
- 562 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.8 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7467° N, 73.3971° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Ticonderoga Municipal (4B6) 274 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 12861 12883
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hague970 ft
- Hubbardton, VT680 ft
- Sudbury, VT530 ft
- Putnam440 ft
- Orwell, VT390 ft
- Benson, VT380 ft
- West Haven, VT380 ft
- Fair Haven, VT380 ft
- Dresden350 ft
- Shoreham, VT320 ft
- Ticonderoga280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,298th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Washington County8th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Mountain2,650 ft
- Pharaoh Mountain2,550 ft
- Moose Mountain, Essex County2,410 ft
- Fivemile Mountain2,240 ft
- Vanderburg Mountain1,920 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.