The Palm Coast plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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Palm Coast’s center stands about 11 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Holocene sediments (sand), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Palm Coast reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Big Mulberry Branch, Long Creek and Pellicer Creek: about 20 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Palm Coast; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
