Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Rainbow Hillcrest Heights, FL

Hillcrest Heights is a tiny incorporated town in Polk County with just 243 residents at the 2020 census, making it one of the smallest municipalities in Florida.

The entire town covers only about 0.2 square miles — roughly 107 acres of land.

Hillcrest Heights traces its founding to 1917, when the Lakeside Club was built on the south shore of Crooked Lake; when it burned down a year later, it was rebuilt as the Hillcrest Lodge.

The Town of Hillcrest Heights was officially incorporated on November 20, 1923, and just a year later every dirt road in town had been paved.

The town sits on the Lake Wales Ridge just south of Babson Park and east of Crooked Lake, about nine miles south of Lake Wales and five miles north of Frostproof.

Hillcrest Heights is governed by a five-member town council that includes a mayor and a vice mayor.

To protect itself from encroaching annexation by the City of Frostproof, the town has explored annexing Crooked Lake and its nearby shores, a move that would expand Hillcrest Heights from 0.2 to about 6.7 square miles.

Despite its miniature size, Hillcrest Heights is relatively affluent, with a median household income above $110,000, and it belongs to the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area.