Putnam County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,050 ft 320 m960 ft 295 m790 ft 240 m620 ft 190 m540 ft 165 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 810 ft (245 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 540 ft on the north side to 1,220 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
810 ft 245 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the north side
Putnam County spans about 680 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Teays Valley.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 57,067 2024 est.
- Land area
- 345.7 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Kanawha County1,050 ft
- Lincoln County930 ft
- Jackson County810 ft
- Putnam County810 ft
- Cabell County770 ft
- Mason County730 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia50th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,790th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Rocky Knob, Putnam County1,168 ft
- Coal Mountain1,070 ft
- Hickory Knob, Putnam County1,020 ft
- Parker Hill1,000 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.
- 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.