Calhoun Subdivision Homes for Sale

Living in Calhoun Subdivision

Calhoun Subdivision began as Calhoun's Subdivision of Addition to Town of Destin, filed and recorded in Okaloosa County's Plat Book 1 at Page 20 on October 31, 1935, with Tyler Calhoun signing its dedication as owner and trustee. The plat takes in the western end of the Choctawhatchee peninsula west of a true north and south line through a concrete marker on the western shore of Joe's Bayou, less the acreage of the Moreno Point Military Reservation survey of lots. Its legend totals 518 acres in Blocks A through H, lists numbered lots only for Blocks A through D, and marks Block E, at 123 acres, as not subdivided. Calhoun Bay, recorded in 2011, is a different plat: a two-lot residential replat of part of one of those reservation lots, Lot 16.

The Second Revision, filed April 14, 1953, divided what the earlier plats had left unplatted into lots and blocks with streets. Block F appears on it as large numbered tracts, and Block E as tracts of the same kind beside rows of numbered lots drawn 50 feet wide and 200 feet deep. The tracts are set along streets named for flowers, Magnolia, Jessamine, Oleander, Camellia and Azalea, and cross streets named for fish, from Tuna and Pompano to Sail Fish and Snapper. The sheet draws a line marked as the crest of sand dunes through several Block E tracts, and it labels the reservation lots along Choctawhatchee Bay and south of U.S. Highway No. 98 as not included in the plat. A later note beneath the surveyor's certificate records certain streets in Blocks E and F closed by a resolution dated September 13, 1960.

On Okaloosa County's roll, the plat's parcels, including those in resubdivisions of Block D, are filed under uses running from single-family houses, multi-family buildings and mobile homes to stores, offices, warehouses, restaurants, motels and churches. The roll gives single-family build years from 1920 to 2025, most of them in the 1950s through the 1980s. Many legals describe part of a lot or tract by the foot, and several Block E legals take in part of Camellia Avenue. Every address in these parcels carries a Destin mailing town, and county address records put the Destin Library at 150 Sibert Avenue, the Destin Community Center at 101 Stahlman Avenue and the Destin History & Fishing Museum at 108 Stahlman Avenue, on lots the roll lists as City of Destin property.