The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusOcala Estates is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Marion County, Florida, United States. It is 11 miles (18 km) west of Ocala, the county seat. Ocala Estates was first listed as a CDP for the 2020 census, at which time it had a population of 2,991. It is part of the Ocala, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Half of its homes were built before 1978.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Ocala Estates yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Ocala Estates’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ocala Estates’s history is told.
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Ocala Estates, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Ocala Estates is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ocala Estates has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Robert W. Ferguson House in Ocala Estates, 5.8 miles away.
Ocala Estates and the nearest listed places
Closest to Ocala Estates
Robert W. Ferguson HouseOcala Estates · Building5.8mi
Fessenden Academy Historic District, OldReddick · District9mi
West Ocala Historic DistrictOcala · Frame Vernacular9.9miFederal Building, United States Post Office, and Court HouseOcala · Building10.3mi
Mount Zion A.M.E. ChurchOcala · Built 189110.5miHow a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.