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At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
Most of the state's highest named points are in Holmes, Walton, and Washington counties, in the sub-Piedmont highlands of northern Florida. The highest points in peninsular Florida are found along the Lake Wales Ridge , running through the central portion of the peninsula, and the Brooksville Ridge , which parallels the northwestern coast of ...
English: Topographic map of the State of Florida, USA (2000 Census). Note: the background map is a raster image embedded in the SVG file. Español: Mapa topográfico del estado de Florida , Estados Unidos ( censo del 2000 ).
Most of this is in Bone Valley in central and west-central Florida. [2] Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents. This type of terrain (geomorphology) that develops over a carbonate platform or strata is called karst topography.
Florida [r] Britton Hill [24] [s] 56 345 ft 105 m Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico: 3 sea level: 50 100 ft 30 m 56 345 ft 105 m Georgia: Brasstown Bald [25] 25 4,784 ft 1458 m Atlantic Ocean: 3 sea level: 38 600 ft 180 m 22 4,784 ft 1458 m
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly 200 miles (320 km) long, bordered by Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its eastern boundary is arbitrarily defined.
[3] [4] North Florida's portion of the Red Hills Region is located within the Big Bend region. The Big Bend Coast either contains [5] or is coterminous with [6] the Nature Coast. Coastal areas such as the Woodville Karst Plain exhibit drowned karst topography covered with salt marshes and feature numerous freshwater springs and oyster reefs.
Florida is mostly low-lying and flat as this topographic map shows. Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, is the tenth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan. [76]