Escambia Farms, Florida

Unincorporated community in Florida, United States
30°57′29″N 86°37′59″W / 30.95806°N 86.63306°W / 30.95806; -86.63306Country United StatesState FloridaCounty OkaloosaElevation217 ft (66 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code850

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]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Escambia Farms. Retrieved on 2009-07-14.
  2. ^ Playground Daily News, Oct. 23, 1983.

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