Lake Helen, FL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
88 ft 27 m71 ft 22 m63 ft 19 m47 ft 14 m31 ft 9 m23 ft 7 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lake Helen sits at about 65 ft (20 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
65 ft 20 m
most residents: 44–78 ft
Lowest
23 ft 7 m
on the south side
Highest
88 ft 27 m
on the southwest side
Average
58 ft 18 m
all land inside city limits
Lake Helen spans about 65 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 | 65 ft20 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 88 ft27 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 23 ft7 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Helen | 65 ft20 m |
| Airport (SFB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the city limits | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 58 ft18 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Volusia County, Florida, United States
- Population
- 2,988 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 656 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 28.9808° N, 81.2334° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Saint Johns River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Orlando Sanford International (SFB) 55 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 32744
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North DeLand79 ft
- DeLand67 ft
- West DeLand67 ft
- Lake Helen65 ft
- DeLand Southwest59 ft
- DeBary57 ft
- Orange City55 ft
- Lake Mack-Forest Hills54 ft
- De Leon Springs52 ft
- Deltona46 ft
- Samsula-Spruce Creek23 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Florida315th highest of 958
- Towns in Volusia County4th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bumcombe Hill46 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.