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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.

Putnam within Callahan County

Population over time

2 figures

Putnam 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.

YearPeople Change
201094
202063-31 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

76 since 2004

Regional 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/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use25
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI/20 319
13 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI/20 316
10 September 2010Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAGGARD
8 August 2010Natural560 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRUIT/ALVEY
7 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI/20
31 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI/20 319
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI/20 320
20 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGEORGE 2-20,I/20,314

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callahan County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005HailPutnam$250,000The very large hail that had been falling in Putnam maxed out at softball size producing major damage to roofs and vehicles.
September 1996Flash FloodPutnam$5,000no account filed
May 2023HailPutnam-The time was estimated from radar.
June 2005HailPutnam-Hail from a stationary supercell thunderstorm pounded the little community of Putnam for almost an hour with hail of Baseball size or larger.
April 2023HailPutnam-no account filed
May 2023HailPutnam-no account filed
May 2015HailPutnam-no account filed
May 2014HailPutnam-no account filed
April 2011HailPutnam-no account filed
June 2009HailPutnam-no account filed
April 2008HailPutnam-no account filed
May 2006HailPutnam-no account filed
June 2005HailPutnam-no account filed
December 2004Thunderstorm WindPutnam-no account filed
May 2003HailPutnam-no account filed
September 1996HailPutnam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callahan County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Jayell7.0 miles8
Admiral7.6 miles9
Atwell8.2 miles9
Pueblo9.6 miles8
Belle Plain9.8 miles9
Baird10.8 miles9
Cottonwood11.4 miles8
Rowden14.0 miles9

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 PutnamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982210The 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.