272 
FLORIDA STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
Company, a few miles east of Nocatee, 300 feet deep, also flows 
eight feet above the ground. 
PUNTA GORDA. 
The city water supply at Punta Gorda is taken from a six- 
inch well, 484 feet deep. The well is cased 240 feet. The water 
from this well is reported to rise about 40 feet above the surface. 
An eight-inch well, owned by the DeSoto Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, is 430 feet deep. Water from this well is reported to rise 
about 50 feet above the surface. Numerous other artesian wells 
have been drilled in and near Punta Gorda, varying in depth from 
265 to 600 feet. 
PALM BEACH COUNTY. 
LOCATION AND SURFACE FEATURES. 
Palm Beach County extends from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake 
Okeechobee, and includes an area of 2,809 square miles. The 
western part of the county extends into the Everglades of Florida. 
WATER-BEARING FORMATIONS. 
Samples obtained by N. H. Darton, many years ago, from the 
well of C. I. Craigin, at Palm Beach, afford practically the only 
information available regarding the deeper formations of this 
county. The Vicksburg Limestone is believed to have been 
reached in this well between 915 and 1,000 feet. The material 
above this level was scarcely determinable, although apparently 
the Miocene and, presumably, other formations are represented. 
The limestone, lying near the surface in the eastern part of this 
county, is of Pleistocene age, and is known as the Palm Beach 
Limestone.* 
*Second Annual Report, Florida Geol. Surv., p. 209, 1909. 
