Highland City, FL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
200 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m98 ft 30 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Highland City sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
130 ft 40 m
most residents: 120–150 ft
Lowest
98 ft 30 m
on the northeast side
Highest
200 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Highland City spans about 102 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 200 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 98 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highland City | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (LAL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi west of the CDP boundary | 142 ft43 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Polk County, Florida, United States
- Population
- 12,355 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,582 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 27.9653° N, 81.8779° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Peace River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lakeland Linder International (LAL) 142 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 33812 33813 33830
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lakeland Highlands180 ft
- Lakeland160 ft
- Eagle Lake150 ft
- Crystal Lake140 ft
- Jan Phyl Village140 ft
- Combee Settlement140 ft
- Highland City130 ft
- Mulberry120 ft
- Bartow120 ft
- Fussels Corner120 ft
- Medulla120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Florida85th highest of 958
- Towns in Polk County23rd highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mountain, Polk County160 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 94 ft at 27.9590° N, 81.8615° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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.
- Highland City is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.