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.
Then and now
1950 to 1988The 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.


Population over time
3 figuresEsto 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 356 | |
| 2010 | 364 | +8 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 341 | -23 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Esto quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Esto quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Marianna quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Esto quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
122 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 32 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | TJ MITCHELL (30) |
| 25 September 2019 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ST MARKS ST (30) |
| 25 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | HWY 160 (30) |
| 1 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Clay Deposits | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Esto | $75,000 | A tornado struck taking the roof off of a home, damaging two vehicles and totally destroying a barn. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esto | $10,000 | Trees were blown down between Esto and Pittman with one tree on a house. Damage cost was estimated. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esto | $10,000 | The Holmes County Sheriff reported some trees and power lines down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esto | $3,000 | Trees were blown down on power lines and across roadways in and around Esto. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esto | $2,000 | A power line was blown down in the Esto area. |
| December 2016 | Flood | Esto | - | Ten Mile Creek Road was flooded and closed at the bridge due to a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esto | - | Holmes County Sheriff's Department reported trees down north of Highway 2 along Highway 79. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noma | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Holland Crossroads | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Noma Junction | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Ards Crossroads | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Wynnlum | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Underwood Crossing | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Tendil Crossing | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Eleanor | 5.2 miles | 15 |
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 Esto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q513308 | The 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.







