Four Mile Village

Four Mile Village occupies an unusual corner of Walton County's coast: a residential enclave closely associated with the protected landscape of the Coffeen Nature Preserve. The County names Four Mile Village in its Coastal Barrier Resources System overview, the Florida corporate registry shows an active property owners association, and the Coffeen Land Trust describes preservation work carried out with the community. Together those sources establish a real local identity without turning the surrounding regulatory geography into a neighborhood boundary.

The Coffeen Land Trust places its 230-acre preserve along Highway 98 in Santa Rosa Beach and says its conservation mission is pursued in collaboration with Four Mile Village. Community material describes the homes in the same wooded setting between the Tops'l area and Topsail Hill State Park. Public records may use Santa Rosa Beach mailing language, while the community's west-Walton location also connects naturally with the Miramar Beach area.

Walton County lists Four Mile Village as CBRS unit P31A with an initial designation date of October 1, 1983. That is useful identity evidence, but it has a narrow meaning: CBRS is federal coastal-barrier regulatory geography, not an association plat or a consumer map of the community. The Florida Division of Corporations separately records the Four Mile Village Property Owners Association as active and traces its filing to 1973. These records support the place name and continuing organizational identity without establishing a current property roster or community-wide rules.

The community's public-facing site describes Lake Fuller, wooded trails, military-history features, and neighborhood access toward the Gulf. Its amenities page presents Lake Fuller as a coastal dune lake and describes walking routes through several ecological settings. Those descriptions explain why Four Mile Village reads differently from a conventional beach subdivision: nature and historic landscape are central to the orientation. They do not establish that every trail, lake edge, or access is open to the general public.

Coffeen Preserve material and the community history page connect this landscape with military testing during 1944 and 1945. The community page says remnants of launch ramps and control bunkers remain. It also records the 1976 donation that formed the preserve. The Atlas treats this as landscape history, not as a claim about a specific home, title, archaeological right, or unrestricted visitor access.

The displayed marker is the independently reviewed public-place coordinate already approved in the Atlas coordinate ledger. It helps a reader orient Four Mile Village along the eastern Miramar Beach and western South Walton corridor. It is not the center of a surveyed tract, a gate, a parcel, a beach entry, or the boundary of either the residential community or the CBRS unit. No polygon is published.

Any property-search link is therefore presented as a clearly labeled Miramar Beach area search, never as exact community inventory. Association obligations, access permissions, rental rules, insurance implications, CBRS status, and property boundaries can vary by parcel and should be confirmed through current governing documents and the appropriate public agencies.

This guide is most useful for readers comparing quiet residential pockets near Sandestin and the eastern edge of Miramar Beach. Four Mile Village may appeal to someone who values a preserve-oriented setting, local history, trails, and proximity to Gulf and lake landscapes. The evidence supports that broad character; it does not support assumptions about a particular home's view, access, availability, condition, or rights.