Lot 34

Begin at the northern boundary. Fence stands over roughly half its length there, wire strung through cedar and tied off wherever the limestone allowed a post, though it's the recorded survey and not the old wire that fixes where your corners actually fall. Trace the perimeter and the whole piece explains itself: Tract 34 is 37.98 acres of Edwards County ranch land for sale on Alamo Ranch, out on the Edwards Plateau a short drive from town off Highway 55 and County Road 310. The shape does most of the talking.

The eastern edge is where the caliche shows itself. A bladed ranch road traces that flank, pale as bone under a July sun, and where it forks at the corner you have room to swing a truck and a gooseneck without backing half a mile to do it. That corner is the practical front of the tract, the logical spot for a drive to begin, and the deed and plat are what settle any question of access, so we'll go through those with you before anything gets signed. Grades are gentle there. Caliche sheds rain and firms up fast, which matters the day you haul in a stock trailer or a load of pipe in February.

Inside the lines it is limestone, mottled with live oak and cedar in tight clusters that read almost black against the white rock. Between the mottes the rock lies open, thin grass holding in the seams, and at midday in summer the shade under those oaks is where every living thing with sense waits out the heat. From the low corner to the high point the terrain climbs roughly 82 ft, 2,145 up to 2,227 ft. Nothing severe about it. That rise is enough for water to fall away from a building pad and enough to leave you two or three benches to choose between, and the oak clusters sit thick enough that a cabin set back from the caliche would be hard to pick out from a passing truck.

Alamo Ranch covers 4,683 acres of rolling rises, wide valleys and dry creek bottoms, and game travels the length of it rather than staying put. Elk, turkey and dove use this stretch of the plateau. Hogs too, more of them than anybody asked for. Paid outfitting operations are not permitted anywhere on the ranch, so the animals here are not pushed hard season after season by strangers, and the herds settle into a pattern you can learn over a few years of owning the same 37.98 acres.

The ownership picture is plain. Surveyed boundaries, a short set of covenants that leave you room to build and to run a few head, and owner financing on every tract here starting as low as 5% up front. Power reaches the county road and various points on the ranch, and how far the closest line sits from this tract is worth confirming with us directly rather than guessing at it. Water well, septic and anything you intend to put up are yours to verify with the county, and we would rather you did that early than late.

Wear a boot with a hard sole when you tour it, because the broken limestone eats soft footwear in an afternoon. Late fall or early spring is the honest time to see this one, when the heat is off the rock and you can cross the whole tract without hurrying. Call and we'll meet you at the caliche fork on the eastern corner, take you up to the high end first, then follow the fence on the north until you have the corners straight in your head.