Highest cities and towns in Florida by elevation
Paxton sits at about 316 feet above sea level, the highest on this list — and every other town on the list sits below 300 feet.
Paxton is the highest on this list. The towns that follow are not ranked against each other. A published elevation is a single point measured somewhere inside a town, and in mountain country the ground within one town's limits can vary by hundreds of feet — so a few feet of difference on paper does not tell you which town sits higher. They are listed alphabetically.
Highest towns in Florida
10 of 10| Town | County | Elevation (approx., ft) |
|---|---|---|
| Chattahoochee | Gadsden County | 235 ft |
| Crestview | Okaloosa County | 238 ft |
| Greensboro | Gadsden County | 271 ft |
| Gretna | Gadsden County | 296 ft |
| Havana | Gadsden County | 242 ft |
| Hillcrest Heights | Polk County | 233 ft |
| Jay | Santa Rosa County | 259 ft |
| Laurel Hill | Okaloosa County | 282 ft |
| Monticello | Jefferson County | 234 ft |
| Paxton | Walton County | 316 ft |
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Highest towns in other states
Same franchise, state by state.
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About this list. Incorporated cities and towns are municipalities recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau; census-designated places, townships, and unincorporated communities are not included. Each elevation is approximate: it is measured at the Census interior point, a point inside the town's boundary rather than the town center or city hall, using U.S. Geological Survey elevation data, so it can run somewhat above the town-center figure some sources publish. Treat these as within-the-limits elevations, not a single canonical height. Where a candidate town's figures don't hold together well enough to stand behind, it's left out rather than the list padded — so some states run to fewer than ten.