Highlands County

Lake Placid

Lake Placid is an incorporated town in Highlands County. Construction usually starts with town zoning or engineering approval, then moves to the Highlands County Building Department for the building permit. The town's regional utility also serves surrounding parts of the county.

Type: Town
County: Highlands
Population: 2,599

Data notes

Population source: Census Vintage 2025 subcounty population estimates. Florida Revenue November 2025 county planning row: 14.5216 mills for Highlands County. Census GEOID: 1238625.

Local front desk

Town approval comes before the county building permit.

Begin with the town permit page for zoning approval, sign review, or a town-road connection. For a house, addition, porch, fence, pool, dock, or other work on the lot, the next step is a Highlands County building permit. Use Lake Placid Regional Utilities separately for water, wastewater, reclaimed water, billing, and service; an account can extend beyond town limits.

Local government

Lake Placid permit applications The town-first sequence for zoning, signs, driveways, town-maintained roads, structures, and the Highlands County building-permit handoff. Lake Placid regional utilities The town route for water, wastewater, reclaimed water, billing, service connections, public notices, and surrounding service areas.

Property and records

Property appraiser Parcel records, assessed value, exemptions, and taxable value. Tax collector Tax bills, payments, discounts, deferrals, and delinquent-tax questions. Clerk and recorder Deeds, mortgages, official records, court files, and recorded documents.

People and safety

Supervisor of Elections Voter registration, precincts, ballots, and county election information. Emergency management Local alerts, evacuation information, shelters, and storm instructions. School district Enrollment, calendars, district contacts, and the address-based assignment path.

Find the office Match the errand to the office Use the record or service to separate city, county, district, state, and private responsibilities. Find the utility provider Start utility service with the address Water, power, sewer, trash, gas, and internet can follow different service boundaries.

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Address, home, and local records

Home and local tasks in Lake Placid

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Address and ZIP

Separate the mailing label from the local boundary

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Property tax

Highlands County tax planning

The November 2025 county planning row is 14.5216 mills, about $1,452 per $100,000 of taxable value before parcel-specific charges.

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Storm planning

Check evacuation zone and local alerts

Evacuation zones, shelter plans, county alerts, and local emergency orders can change by exact address.

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Permits and records

Look up the local file

Building permits, code cases, liens, zoning, business tax receipts, and utility records may sit with Highlands County, a city, or a district.

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Address changes

Update the records that follow the address

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Direct Porch Notes

Notes about Lake Placid

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Money and taxes

Lake Placid caladiums are more than color

Lake Placid's caladium story adds farm work, fields, festival days, and a colorful plant business to Highlands County.

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History and culture

Lake Placid murals turn Highlands history into a walk

More than 40 murals turn Lake Placid's local history into a downtown walk with hidden details, sound, and public art.

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Useful local context

Notes that mention, illustrate, or sit near Lake Placid

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Outdoors

Archbold Station puts the Lake Wales Ridge under a field lens

Archbold Biological Station in Venus, south of Lake Placid, makes the Lake Wales Ridge easier to notice through research, scrub habitat, restoration work, and public learning.

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Around Lake Placid

Nearby Florida place pages, ordered by straight-line distance between Census internal points. This is not driving distance.

Sebring Highlands County - about 13 miles away Avon Park Highlands County - about 22 miles away Gardner Hardee County - about 26 miles away Lemon Grove Hardee County - about 26 miles away Zolfo Springs Hardee County - about 29 miles away Arcadia DeSoto County - about 30 miles away Southeast Arcadia DeSoto County - about 31 miles away Wauchula Hardee County - about 32 miles away

Source habit

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Home and local tasks

Property, storms, permits, and offices

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County context

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Data and page limits

Last checked July 26, 2026. Place names, county coverage, GEOIDs, coordinates, and population labels come from the Census sources in the Florida place data used by this site. County tax planning rows use Florida Revenue November 2025 millage data. The local front desk is a reviewed profile of the city and county split, checked August 3, 2026. Direct note relationships and contextual note paths are kept separate. Parcel values, exemptions, permits, school assignments, storm instructions, utility service, private rules, and final bills still depend on the exact address and the official office or document.

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