Columbia County, FL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m85 ft 26 m33 ft 10 m8 ft 2 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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How to use this mapviews, tools and data

Elevation: Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
Satellite: A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
3D: Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
Click or tap anywhere: The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure: Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Columbia County averages about 120 ft (35 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 7 ft on the southwest side to 210 ft near the middle.

Average elevation

120 ft 35 m

all land inside the county

Highest

210 ft 65 m

near the middle

Lowest

7 ft 2 m

on the southwest side

Columbia County spans about 203 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	120 ft35 m
Highest point Inside the county, near the middle	210 ft65 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	7 ft2 m

Elevation profile, south to north

53 mi south to north through Lake City.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Florida, United States
Population: 73,977 2024 est.
Land area: 797.4 sq mi + 3.9 sq mi water
Density: 93 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Gulf of America 83%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 17%

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Clinch County, GA150 ft
Echols County, GA140 ft
Baker County130 ft
Union County130 ft
Hamilton County120 ft
Columbia County120 ft
Alachua County110 ft
Suwannee County90 ft
Gilchrist County61 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Florida13th highest of 66
Counties in the United States2,902nd highest of 3,151

All 4 towns in Columbia County by typical elevation

Watertown180 ft
Five Points170 ft
Lake City170 ft
Fort White66 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.