“The Value of Water”

Ponce de Leon
The Fountain of Youth
crystal clear water attracted development

1800s —
Silver Springs

Riverboat Travel
Ulysses S. Grant (1860s)

Fourteen Florida cities have “Spring” in their name.
Spring names have been duplicated in different parts of the state, such as Gator and Salt;
Blue Spring was so common that the county name was added to differentiate between the seven locations.

The next update was released 30 years later in the Florida Geological Survey Bulletin No. 31,
Revised, “Springs of Florida.”
In that 1977 Rosenau survey, there were:
sixteen offshore (under water) springs identified. All but two were situated on the Gulf coast.
Since that time, scores of additional springs have been located and are being studied.
The most recent compendium of spring data is contained in the 2004 publication, Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 66,
identified 720 springs, of which
33 were first magnitude,
191 were second magnitude,
151 were third magnitude.
Springs are identified by type:
(RR) — river rise is where a river emerges after flowing underground for a distance
(SS) — a single spring has one underground source, but may flow through multiple rock fissures
(GS) — a group spring has multiple underground sources
(SK) — a sink is an opening in the Earth’s surface that occurs from
— karst processes[8]
— and/or suffosion.[9]

Florida Springs
• Alapaha Rise — Alapaha River (Hamiltonv
• Alexander — St. Johns River (Lake)
• Apopka — Lake Apopka (Lake)
• Aucilla — Wacissa River (Jefferson)
• Baltzell — Chipola River (Jackson)
• Beecher — St. Johns River (Putnam)
• Big Blue — Wacissa River (Jefferson)
• Blue — St. Johns River (Volusia)
• Blue Grotto — Silver River (Marion)
• Blue Hole — Chipola River (Jackson)
• Blue Hole — Ichetucknee River (Columbia)
• Boulware — Sweetwater Branch Creek (Alachua)
• Branford — Suwannee River (Suwannee)
• Buckhorn Main — Alafia River (Hillsborough)
• Bugg — Lake Denham (Lake)
• Cedar Head — Ichetucknee River (Columbia)
• Chassahowitzka — Chassahowitzka River (Citrus)
• Citrus Blue — Withlacoochee River (Citrus)
• Columbia — Sante Fe River (Columbia)
• Copper — Suwannee River (Dixie)
• Cow — Suwannee River (Lafayette)
• Crystal Springs — Hillsborough River (Pasco)
• Cypress — Holmes Creek/Choctawhatchee River (Washington)
• De Leon — Spring Garden Creek/St. John’s River (Volusia)
• Devil’s Den — Sinkhole (Levy)
• Devil’s Ear/Eye/Little — Santa Fe River (Gilchrist)
• Emerald (Gainer #2) — Econfina Creek (Bay)
• Ellaville — Suwannee River (Suwannee)
• Falmouth — Karst fenster (Suwannee)
• Fanning — Suwannee River (Levy)
• Fenney — Shady Brook/Lake Panasoffkee (Sumter)
• Fern Hammock — Juniper Creek/Lake George (Marion)
• Gainer #3 — Econfina Creek (Bay)
• Gator — Hammock Creek (Hernando)
• Gilchrist Blue — Santa Fe River (Gilchrist)
• Ginnie — Santa Fe River (Gilchrist)
• Glen — Hogtown Creek (Alachua)
• Green Cove — St. Johns River (Dixie)
• Hardee — Withlacoochee River (Hamilton)
• Hart — Suwannee River (Gilchrist)
• Hernando Salt — Mud River (Hernando)
• Holton Creek Rise — Suwannee River (Hamilton)
• Homosassa — Homosassa River (Citrus)
• Honsby — Santa Fe River (Alachua)
• Hunter (Kings Bay) — Crystal River (Citrus)
• Ichetucknee — Ichetucknee River (Columbia)
• Jackson Blue — Merritt’s Millpond/Chipola River (Jackson)
• Juniper — Juniper Creek/Lake George (Marion)
• Kings Bay — Crystal River (Citrus)
• Kini/Upper River Sink — Karst fenster (Wakulla)
• Kissinger — Peace River (Polk)
• Lafayette Blue — Suwannee River (Lafayette)
• Levy Blue — Waccasassa River (Levy)
• Lime Sink Run — Suwannee River (Suwannee)
• Lithia Major, Minor — Alafia River (Hillsborough)
• Little Weeki — Wachee River (Hernando)
• Little River — Suwanne River (Suwannee)
• Madison Blue — Withlacoochee River (Madison)
• Magnolia — Hammock Creek (Hernando)
• Manatee — Suwannee River (Levy)
• McCormick (Gainer #1) — Econfina Creek (Bay)
• Morrison — Choctawhatchee River (Walton)
• Natural Bridge — Karst fenster/St. Marks River (Leon)
• Nutall Rise — Aucilla River (Jefferson)
• Orange — Orange Creek/Oklawaha River (Marion)
• Otter — Suwannee River (Gilchrist)
• Paradise — Sinkhole (Marion)
• Peacock — Suwannee River (Suwannee)
• Pitt — Econfina Creek (Walton)
• Poe — Santa Fe River (Alachua)
• Ponce de Leon — Sandy Creek/Choctawhatchee River (Holmes)
• Rainbow — Rainbow River/Withlacoochee River (Marion)
• Roaring (Ichetucknee) — Ichetucknee River (Columbia)
• Rock — Rock Springs Run/Wekiwa River (Orange)
• Rock Bluff — Suwannee River (Gilchrist)
• Rossetter — Withlacoochee River (Hamilton)
• Royal — Suwanne River (Suwannee)
• Running East/West — Suwannee River (Lafayette/Suwannee)
• Salt (Marion) — Lake George (Marion)
• Sanlando — Wekiva River (Seminole)
• Santa Fe — Santa Fe River (Columbia)
• Santa Fe Rise — Santa Fe River (Alachua)
• Shangri La — Merritt’s Millpond/Chipola River (Jackson)
• Silver — Silver River/Oklawaha River (Marion)
• Silver Glen — St. Johns River (Marion)
• Siphon Creek Rise — Santa Fe River (Gilchrist)
• Spring Creek — Apalachee Bay (Wakulla)
• St. Marks Rise — St. Marks River (Leon)
• Starbuck — Wekiva River (Seminole)
• Steinhatchee Rise — Steinhatchee River (Taylor/Dixie)
• Sun — Suwannee River (Gilchrist)
• Suwanne — Suwannee River (Suwannee)
• Suwannee Blue — Suwannee River (Suwannee
• Tarpon Hole (Kings Bay) — Crystal River (Citrus)
• Telford — Suwannee River (Suwannee)
• Three Sisters (Kings Bay) — Crystal River (Citrus)
• Treehouse — Santa Fe River (Alachua)
• Troy — Suwannee River (Lafayette)
• Volusia Blue — St. Johns River (Volusia)
• Vortex — Blue/Sandy Creek/Choctawhatchee River (Holmes)
• Wacissa Group — Wacissa River (Jefferson)
• Wakulla — Wakulla River (Wakulla)
• Waldo — Fenholloway River (Taylor)
• Wall — Boggy Bayou (Pinellas)
• Warm Mineral — Myakka River (Sarasota)
• Weeki Wachee — Weeki Wachee River (Hernando)
• Wekiwa — Wekiva River (Orange/Seminole)
• Welaka — St. Johns River (Putnam)
• White — Suwannee River (Hamilton)
• Williford — Econfina Creek (Washington/Bay)
• Worthington — Santa Fe River (Union)