Putnam, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Baird census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76469. The Survey maps it on the Putnam South quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPutnam fell from 94 to 63 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 94 | |
| 2020 | 63 | -31 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1931 USGS Baird quadrangle1:125000
- 1932 USGS Baird quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Putnam South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
76 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Putnam between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,778 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | I/20 319 |
| 13 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | I/20 316 |
| 10 September 2010 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAGGARD |
| 8 August 2010 | Natural | 560 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRUIT/ALVEY |
| 7 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I/20 |
| 31 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | I/20 319 |
| 26 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | I/20 320 |
| 20 August 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GEORGE 2-20,I/20,314 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Putnam in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 14 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Hail | Putnam | $250,000 | The very large hail that had been falling in Putnam maxed out at softball size producing major damage to roofs and vehicles. |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Putnam | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Putnam | - | The time was estimated from radar. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Putnam | - | Hail from a stationary supercell thunderstorm pounded the little community of Putnam for almost an hour with hail of Baseball size or larger. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| December 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Putnam | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jayell | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Admiral | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Atwell | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Pueblo | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Belle Plain | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Baird | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Cottonwood | 11.4 miles | 8 | |
| Rowden | 14.0 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Putnam | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982210 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1344639. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





