Escambia Farms, Florida Explained

Official Name:Escambia Farms, Florida
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:County
Unit Pref:Imperial
Timezone:CST
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Coordinates:30.9581°N -86.6331°W
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Elevation Ft:217
Postal Code Type:ZIP codes
Area Code:850

Escambia Farms is a rural, unincorporated community in northern Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Fort Walton Beach - Crestview - Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Escambia Farms was a planned community created by the U.S. government in the 1930s to ease the effects of the Depression on farmers. Eighty-one homes were built on 115 tracts of land.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. . Retrieved on 2009-07-14.
  2. Playground Daily News, Oct. 23, 1983.