THE PUTNAM COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Putnam County has 344.7 square miles of land in Georgia. The mapped landscape region in Putnam County is Southern Outer Piedmont.
The Piedmont is a belt of irregular plains and hills between the Appalachians and the coastal plain. A complex mixture of older rocks underlies its pine and hardwood woodland landscapes.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Putnam County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Putnam County, including Eatonton, Crooked Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Putnam County by land and water
The Census records 16 square miles of water within Putnam County, or 4.4% of its total area. That share is close to Putnam County’s 4.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Putnam County has 16.8 times the land area of nearby Eatonton city (20.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baldwin County, Greene County, Hancock County, Jasper County, Jones County, Morgan County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

