page_title: Putnam County, Tennessee
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Putnam County, Tennessee / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Farm in rural northern Putnam County, Tennessee, United States.
context_page_description: Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 72,321. Its county seat is Cookeville.
  Putnam County is part of the Cookeville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 403 square miles (1,040 km²), of which 401 square miles (1,040 km²) is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²) (0.4%) is water.
  The county is part of the greater Cumberland River watershed. The southern part of the county is drained by tributaries of the Caney Fork, the northeastern part by tributaries of the Obey River, and the north-central and northwestern parts of the county drain into the Cumberland's Cordell Hull Lake impoundment. The sources of two tributaries of the Caney Fork, the Falling Water River and the Calfkiller River, lie near Monterey in the eastern part of the county.
caption: Farm in rural northern Putnam County
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