Tom Barrow Homes for Sale

Living in Tom Barrow

Okaloosa County indexes Tom Barrow as parcel series 01-2S-24-2470, in Section 1 of Township 2 South, Range 24 West, and Racetrack Road runs through it with series parcels on both sides. Its 105 parcels cover about 45 acres by the county's mapped outlines. Housing accounts for 39 of them: 29 in the single-family class, seven mobile-home parcels, two classed as trailer parks and one multifamily parcel. Another 26 are vacant, and the remaining 40 hold vehicle sales and repair, service shops, warehouses and storage, offices, stores, shopping centers, a restaurant, a barber or beauty shop, light manufacturing and a fire department building put up in 2017.

Of the 29 single-family parcels, 26 lie on the north side of Racetrack Road, on Bayou Drive, Washington Street, Harris Road, Barrow Street, Lois Street and Truman Street, and three sit south of it on Duval Street (the state roll spells it Duvall) and Jackson Street. Their recorded build years run from 1950 to 2020, none of them in the 2000s, and the state roll gives living areas from 825 to 3,414 square feet. The county zoning map splits them three ways: the 14 on Bayou, Washington and Harris fall in R-1, whose stated purpose is single-family detached homes; 11 on Barrow, Lois and Jackson fall in R-2; and four on Truman and Duval are Mixed Use. Barrow Street changes district along its length, from R-2 houses at its north end to C-3 General Commercial ground around 900 to 909, and nearly all of the Racetrack Road frontage is C-3.

Every site address on the state roll carries a Fort Walton Beach 32547 postal label, yet no Tom Barrow parcel outline reaches Fort Walton Beach, Cinco Bayou or any other city or town on the county's city-limit map, so the county's zoning map is the one that applies here. Flood exposure is concentrated in one corner. FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer, on panel 12091C0453J effective March 9, 2021, puts Zone AE with a 10-foot base flood elevation on ten parcels at the northeast edge, along Harris Road, the east end of Bayou Drive and the north end of Skipper Avenue: three single-family parcels, four vacant lots and three business parcels. On those three single-family parcels the AE share runs from roughly a fifth to nearly two thirds of the lot. The other 95 parcels are wholly Zone X, eight of them partly inside the shaded 0.2 percent annual chance band.

A market check on September 24, 2026 found no active listing and 15 closed dwelling sales filed under the Tom Barrow name, dated January 29, 2016 through June 27, 2026; they speak for the houses, not for the commercial blocks. Parcel counts and home counts diverge as well: a 2.7-acre mobile-home park on Jackson Street is one parcel that the state roll credits with 34 residential units, and the roll gives two single-family parcels, on Truman and Duval Streets, three residential units each. Plat edges are not perfectly clean either, since the legal description of one Jackson Street house names both Tom Barrow and the Fifth Addition to Garnier Beach. The parcel and roll records used here do not say whether an association, recorded covenants or shared facilities exist for the plat, so restrictions are a question for the deed and the title search.