SOIL SURVEY OF PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA.* 
By Grove B. Jones and T. M. Morrison. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA. 
Pinellas County is situated on the western coast of Florida, 
about midway between the northern and southern boundaries of the 
State, and occupies that section known as Pinellas Peninsula. It is 
bounded on the north by Pasco County; on the east by Hillsboro 
County and Tampa and Old Tampa Bays; on the south by Tampa 
Fig. 72. —Sketch map showing areas surveyed in Florida. 
Bay and the Gulf of Mexico ; and on the west by the Gulf of Mexico. 
The total length of boundary of Pinellas mainland is 84 miles, only 
18 of which are formed by land. The county is about 34 miles long 
and 1.5 miles wide at its widest point. It contains an area of 260 
square miles, or 166,400 acres. “Besides the mainland the county in- 
*An edition of this paper was issued by the U. S. Bureau of Soils, Sep¬ 
tember 30, 1914, as Advance Sheet, Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1913. 
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