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Sebring is a city in Central Florida that was founded in 1912 by George E. Sebring, an Ohio pottery manufacturer who bought the land in 1911, and it was chartered in 1913.

Sebring became the county seat of Highlands County when the county was created in 1921, and it remains the county's governmental and commercial center.

Sebring had a population of 10,729 at the 2020 Census and an estimated 12,059 residents in 2025, with about 4,949 households averaging 2.16 people each.

Sebring is nicknamed 'The City on the Circle' because its founder laid out downtown on a 'city of the sun' radial plan, with streets radiating outward from Circle Park and Circle Drive, and the 1920s downtown is now a National Register historic district (listed in 1990).

Sebring is home to Sebring International Raceway, America's oldest road racing circuit, built on the runways of the former Hendricks Field, a World War II B-17 bomber training base.

The first race at Sebring was held on December 31, 1950 - a 6-hour Sam Collier Memorial - and promoter Alec Ulmann launched the first 12 Hours of Sebring on March 15, 1952, a race that still anchors the world endurance racing calendar.

Sebring International Raceway even hosted the United States Grand Prix in 1959, and its famously bumpy 3.74-mile, 17-turn course still runs partly over the old airfield concrete.

Sebring's geography is dominated by lakes: 9,212-acre Lake Jackson borders the city, while 420-acre Dinner Lake and 137-acre Little Lake Jackson lie inside it, and surrounding Highlands County counts more than 84 lakes.

Sebring sits at the southern end of the ancient Lake Wales Ridge, a strip of sandy high ground that once formed an island chain when Florida was mostly underwater.

Highlands Hammock State Park, about 4 miles west of Sebring, protects more than 9,000 acres of old-growth hammock with an exceptional concentration of rare and endemic species found almost nowhere else.