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About Paxton, FL

Paxton is a small Panhandle community of about 700 people in Walton County's pine forests. State Road 85 connects it south to Crestview and Interstate 10, while County Road 4 links east to DeFuniak Springs. Most visitors pass through on logging routes or while exploring rural northwest Florida. The town's 1920s brick schoolhouse still anchors the community center.

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Paxton, FL is in United States, at 30.975, -86.310 - about 36 km south-west of Samson, AL.

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The closest airport to Paxton, FL is Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport, 70 km (about 1 h 16 min by car).

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