Forest Park Homes for Sale

Living in Forest Park

Okaloosa County's parcel roll files Forest Park as two subdivision units, the original Forest Park and Forest Park Unit 2, in two parcel-number series, 35-1S-24-0960 and 35-1S-24-0961, that together hold 129 parcels. The original unit has 60 single-family parcels and one vacant lot. Unit 2, three of whose parcels carry a resubdivision legal description, has 63 single-family parcels, three vacant parcels and two owned by the City of Fort Walton Beach. The county's actual-year-built entries put 98 of the 123 houses between 1965 and 1969 and 18 more between 1970 and 1973; five date from 1975 to 1977, and one each from 2002 and 2004.

All but three parcels have one county address point, on Linwood, Oakdale, Lakeview and Sherwood Roads, Idlewild Court or Mooney Road, each with a northwest suffix and a Fort Walton Beach 32547 mailing line. Here the mailing city and the governing one match: the city's own boundary map puts all 129 parcels inside Fort Walton Beach. Its zoning map shows R-1 Single Family Residential on 124 of them and R-1E Single Family Residential Estate on three Block E parcels along Mooney Road, with the two city parcels zoned Community Facilities and Recreation.

Several edges of the subdivision run along land on the city's property inventory. Every even-numbered Linwood Road lot from 30 through 56, plus 621 and 622 Lakeview Road, shares a line with the parcel the city's property inventory lists as its golf course, 16 lots in all. Thirty-two lots on Linwood, Sherwood and Lakeview Roads share a line with a 5.9-acre drainage tract that the inventory calls Forest Park Bass Lake, which lies outside all 129 Forest Park parcels. Inside Unit 2, the Community Facilities parcel on Mooney Road belongs to the city's Pump Station 2 site, described in the inventory as running along Don's Bayou, and the Recreation parcel is a narrow strip by Sherwood Road that the inventory records with a public-park-only deed restriction.

Flood exposure in Forest Park follows two places, the Bass Lake drainage tract and Block E. The 33 parcels holding Zone AE ground on FEMA's national layer, at a mapped base flood elevation of 10 feet, are the 29 that share a line with that tract and four in Block E on Mooney Road; the other 96 hold only minimal-hazard Zone X. On 28 of the 29 house lots with AE ground the AE ground runs from a few square feet, at 19 Sherwood Road, to about 13 percent of the lot; the 29th, in Block E, is 29 percent AE. Four Block E parcels also hold 0.2 percent annual chance ground. A mapped share of a lot says nothing about a house's floor height, which is what an elevation certificate for that home records.