Highlands County, FL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m87 ft 26 m36 ft 11 m11 ft 3 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
Highlands County averages about 75 ft (23 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 11 ft on the southeast side to 210 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
75 ft 23 m
all land inside the county
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
11 ft 3 m
on the southeast side
Highlands County spans about 199 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 | 75 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 11 ft3 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
22 mi west to east through Sebring.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Florida, United States
- Population
- 109,778 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,017.7 sq mi + 89.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Lake Okeechobee basin (does not reach the sea) 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Polk County120 ft
- Hardee County85 ft
- Highlands County75 ft
- DeSoto County56 ft
- Okeechobee County47 ft
- Glades County30 ft
- Charlotte County26 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Florida27th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States2,974th highest of 3,151
All 3 towns in Highlands County by typical elevation
- Avon Park140 ft
- Lake Placid130 ft
- Sebring120 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.