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Esto, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Esto-Noma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32425. It lies near Corbett Hill. The Survey maps it on the Esto quadrangle. 341 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Esto within Holmes County

Then and now

1950 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Esto, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Esto, surveyed 1950

Population over time

3 figures

Esto fell from 356 to 341 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000356
2010364+8 (+2%)
2020341-23 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Esto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning32
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTJ MITCHELL (30)
25 September 2019Other causes1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceST MARKS ST (30)
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 160 (30)
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Esto: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Unnamed Clay DepositsClayProspect

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esto in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 1995Tornado (F1)Esto$75,000A tornado struck taking the roof off of a home, damaging two vehicles and totally destroying a barn.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEsto$10,000Trees were blown down between Esto and Pittman with one tree on a house. Damage cost was estimated.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindEsto$10,000The Holmes County Sheriff reported some trees and power lines down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEsto$3,000Trees were blown down on power lines and across roadways in and around Esto.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindEsto$2,000A power line was blown down in the Esto area.
December 2016FloodEsto-Ten Mile Creek Road was flooded and closed at the bridge due to a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindEsto-Holmes County Sheriff's Department reported trees down north of Highway 2 along Highway 79.

Every storm recorded in Holmes County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Noma1.5 miles15
Holland Crossroads1.5 miles14
Noma Junction1.8 miles15
Ards Crossroads3.2 miles14
Wynnlum3.2 miles15
Underwood Crossing3.4 miles15
Tendil Crossing3.9 miles15
Eleanor5.2 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EstoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q513308The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282263. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.