Live in Betton Hills

The name is Turbutt Betton's. A Tallahassee merchant from 1826, he bought about 1,200 acres from the Lafayette estate between Thomasville and Centerville Roads; the accounts read here date the purchase anywhere from the late 1820s to 1841. The land was a plantation, and the Black Cemetery Network records a burial ground on it for enslaved people and servants, used into the 1940s, its wooden markers long gone. In 1945 the Winthrop family began selling house lots, at $300 with $30 down, and Guy Winthrop named Spence Avenue, Dillard Street and Cline Street for his World War I officers.

The line on this page is the association's, not the City's. It is the area the Betton Hills Neighborhood Association filed and Tallahassee-Leon County GIS maps, 477 acres clipped to the City limits between Thomasville and Centerville Roads. At the 2020 census it held 1,151 residents in 498 homes. Tallahassee Magazine counted about 800 homesites in 2014, so the name in everyday use probably covers more; this guide counts only the line. 396 residents are on blocks inside the City's Multimodal Transportation District and 30 inside the County's Historic Preservation Overlay, which names no district. The census tract holding 755 of the residents counts 8.8% of its people in college, with a margin of 300 on its 315 undergraduates: the tract's figure, not this guide's.

Water is not the hazard here; trees are. No 2020 block sits in a FEMA special flood hazard area. Those zones cover 3.33% of the area, around the ponds; the point is zone X on panels of 2009, and the City is in Class 5 of FEMA's Community Rating System. The storms that matter are wind through a mature canopy: Hermine in 2016 cut power to about 65% of the City's electric customers on the National Hurricane Center's count and about 80% on the National Weather Service's, and Helene left about 53,000 City utility customers dark in 2024. No one mapped damage by street. Centerville Road is one of the County's nine canopy roads; its 100-foot zone is drawn "for planning purposes" and holds no resident by block point, and what the canopy road rules permit was not read.

The tax stack is the City's, and so are the utilities. A house here paid 19.2060 mills for 2025 across nine levies, County, School Board and City among them. A homestead takes $25,000 off every levy and a second $25,000 off all but the school levies; Save Our Homes caps the assessment's growth at 3% a year until a sale resets it, so the seller's bill understates yours, and portability can carry up to $500,000 of the benefit from a previous Florida homestead. The City sells the electricity, water, sewer and gas, and bills stormwater ($11.00) and garbage ($28.19) monthly on the utility bill with a fire services fee whose amount no page read here prints, raised 9.98% in October 2025 and challenged in a suit filed on 17 November 2025. Association dues, if any, were not read.

No price follows the line. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32308, which holds 755 of the residents, was $341,563 in August 2026, up 1.9%; 32303, with the other 396, was $239,971. Both cover tens of thousands of people, condominiums included. What the line offers is distance: Tallahassee Memorial's 772-bed hospital about a kilometer away, a supermarket under a kilometer, and all three zoned schools within 2.7 km. The bus is the weak point: the San Luis route stops inside the line once an hour at midday and not at all on weekends.