DeSoto County, FL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 55 m140 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m69 ft 21 m23 ft 7 m−1 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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
DeSoto County averages about 56 ft (17 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1 ft below sea level on the southwest side to 190 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
56 ft 17 m
all land inside the county
Highest
190 ft 55 m
on the east side
Lowest
−1 ft 0 m
on the southwest side
DeSoto County spans about 191 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.
Under 1% of DeSoto County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and under 1% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 56 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 190 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | −1 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Arcadia.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Florida, United States
- Population
- 36,744 2024 est.
- Land area
- 636.7 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hardee County85 ft
- Highlands County75 ft
- Manatee County58 ft
- DeSoto County56 ft
- Charlotte County26 ft
- Sarasota County23 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Florida36th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States3,011th highest of 3,151
All 2 towns in DeSoto County by typical elevation
- Arcadia59 ft
- Southeast Arcadia58 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −2 ft at 27.0446° N, 81.9896° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.