Putnam, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,730 ft 530 m1,690 ft 515 m1,670 ft 510 m1,630 ft 500 m1,590 ft 485 m1,570 ft 480 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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 limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Putnam sits at about 1,600 ft (490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,600 ft 490 m
most residents: 1,590–1,640 ft
Lowest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the north side
Highest
1,730 ft 530 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside town limits
Putnam spans about 160 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 | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Putnam | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Average of all land | 1,620 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Callahan County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 77 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 76 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.3710° N, 99.1926° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Deep Creek → Hubbard Creek → Clear Fork Brazos River → Brazos River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 76469
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clyde1,990 ft
- Potosi1,840 ft
- Cross Plains1,740 ft
- Baird1,730 ft
- Cisco1,660 ft
- Rising Star1,640 ft
- Putnam1,600 ft
- Carbon1,600 ft
- Eastland1,460 ft
- Albany1,430 ft
- Moran1,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas284th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Callahan Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Caddo Peak2,080 ft
- Mexican Hat Hill2,056 ft
- East Caddo Peak2,030 ft
- Cedar Mountain, Eastland County1,620 ft
- Indian Knoll1,470 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 limits (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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.