Putnam County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,050 ft 625 m1,650 ft 505 m1,460 ft 445 m1,070 ft 325 m680 ft 205 m480 ft 145 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Putnam County averages about 1,190 ft (365 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the west side to 2,050 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,190 ft 365 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,050 ft 625 m
on the east side
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the west side
Putnam County spans about 1,570 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
32 mi west to east through Cookeville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 84,894 2024 est.
- Land area
- 401.1 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 212 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 72%, Appalachian Plateaus 28%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cumberland County1,790 ft
- Fentress County1,490 ft
- Overton County1,210 ft
- White County1,200 ft
- Putnam County1,190 ft
- DeKalb County890 ft
- Jackson County790 ft
- Smith County680 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee31st highest of 92
- Counties in the United States1,127th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Verble Knobs1,960 ft
- Blaylock Mountain1,950 ft
- Bee Rock1,910 ft
- Burnett Mountain1,870 ft
- Willet Mountain, Putnam County1,840 ft
All 4 towns in Putnam County by typical elevation
- Monterey1,870 ft
- Cookeville1,110 ft
- Algood1,110 ft
- Baxter1,040 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 480 ft at 36.1401° N, 85.7979° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.