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Nearest Communities to Lake Placid,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lake Placid, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lake Placid:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Lake Placid.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Lake Placid is located in Highlands County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Highlands County: Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Okeechobee, Osceola & Polk.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 59 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lake Placid. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Highlands County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Lake Placid (which is Highlands County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Lake Placid

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Highlands County   (where Lake Placid resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.highlandsfl.gov/
    • County Seat for Highlands:   Sebring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake Placid   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake Placid.
      • Sylvan Shores
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
        • Sylvan Shores is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Shores
      • Highlands Park Estates
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Placid Lakes
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Placid Lakes is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placid Lakes
      • Sunvale
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Sunvale is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunvale
      • Childs
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Childs is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
      • Parker Island
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Parker Island is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Island
      • Bairs Den
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Bairs Den is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bairs Den
      • Hen Scratch
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Hen Scratch is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hen Scratch
      • Marland
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Marland is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marland
      • Kuhlman
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Kuhlman is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kuhlman
      • Archbold
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Bear Hollow
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bear Hollow is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Hollow
      • Continue List   (18 more) ...
        • Istokpoga
          (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
          • Istokpoga is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Istokpoga
        • Hicoria
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
          • Hicoria is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicoria
        • De Soto City
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
          • De Soto City is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Soto City
        • Negrotown Knoll
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
          • Negrotown Knoll is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Negrotown Knoll
        • Wild Island
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Wild Island is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wild Island
        • Lorida
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Plains
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
          • Plains is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains
        • Sebring
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Venus
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Brighton
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Brighton is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton
        • Cornwell
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Cornwell is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornwell
        • Sebring Shores
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Sebring Shores is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebring Shores
        • Lakemont
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Lakemont is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakemont
        • Fort Basinger
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Fort Basinger is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Basinger
        • Avon Park
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Alpine
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Avon Park Lakes
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Avon Park Lakes is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Park Lakes
        • Highland Lakes
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Highland Lakes is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Lakes
  • Charlotte County
  • DeSoto County
  • Glades County
  • Hardee County
  • Okeechobee County
    • County Website:   https://www.okeechobeecountyfl.gov/
    • County Seat for Okeechobee:   Okeechobee
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake Placid   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake Placid.
      • Basinger
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Basinger is located in Okeechobee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basinger
      • Fort Kissimmee
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Fort Kissimmee is located in Okeechobee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kissimmee
      • Mildred
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Mildred is located in Okeechobee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mildred
      • Dixie Ranch Acres
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Dixie Ranch Acres is located in Okeechobee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Ranch Acres
      • Basswood Estates
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Basswood Estates is located in Okeechobee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basswood Estates
  • Polk County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lake Placid) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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