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.
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]