Mount Putnam is a

summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used ...

in the U.S. state of

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...

, with an elevation of . Mount Putnam was named after Captain James E. Putnam, 12th U.S. Infantry, who was in command of the detachment, which established the

Fort Hall Fort Hall was a fort in the western United States that was built in 1834 as a fur trading post by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth. It was located on the Snake River in the eastern Oregon Country, now part of present-day Bannock County in southeastern Ida ...

Military Post at Lincoln Creek in 1870. A variant name was "North Putman Peak".

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Putnam Mountains of Bannock County, Idaho {{BannockCountyID-geo-stub