Highest point in Florida: Britton Hill

345 ft105 m above sea level

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Britton Hill, in Walton County, as the highest point in Florida at 345 feet. The lowest point it lists is the Atlantic Ocean, at sea level.

Florida in the USGS table

	Place	County	Feet	Metres
Highest	Britton Hill	Walton	345	105
Lowest	Atlantic Ocean	none listed	Sea level	0

The feet are copied from the table as printed. The metres are our own conversion, rounded to the nearest metre. Where the table gives no county, we write “none listed”.

Against the other states

Sorted by the same USGS table, Britton Hill is number 50 of the 50 state high points, counted from the tallest. These are the 5 lowest:

State	Highest point	Feet
Florida	Britton Hill	345
Delaware	On Ebright Road at Delaware-Pennsylvania State line	448¹
Louisiana	Driskill Mountain	535
Mississippi	Woodall Mountain	806
Rhode Island	Jerimoth Hill	812

¹ The table credits this figure to the National Geodetic Survey.

Towns we measured in Florida

None of the 24 towns in our town table is in Florida yet, so this page has no town comparison. We add towns only after reading them from USGS elevation data ourselves.

Source

The table is from the online edition of a USGS booklet, Elevations and Distances in the United States (online edition). It was revised in 2001, and we read the online edition on 2026-09-28. Florida's row is quoted below exactly as printed.

Florida's highest and lowest points (USGS table)

Britton Hill, 345 ft; lowest: Atlantic Ocean, sea level

State or possession Highest point County or subdivision Elevation feet Lowest Point County or subdivision Elevation feet

Florida Britton Hill Walton 345 Atlantic Ocean - - Sea level

This booklet was originally published and printed in 1995 and revised and reprinted in 2001.

Applies to: Florida's row in the USGS Highest and Lowest Elevations table, from a booklet the USGS revised in 2001

From U.S. Geological Survey, Elevations and Distances in the United States (online edition). Page read on 2026-09-28.

For the two tallest US peaks, see how tall Denali and Mount Rainier are.