Lot 55

What this tract does best is put timber between you and everybody else. Better than two thirds of Tract 55 is wooded, cedar and oak thick enough that the canopy shuts over your head a few steps in from the open. That is its honest strength. If you have been looking at ranch land for sale in Edwards County and picturing shade instead of bare pasture, these 33.48 acres on Alamo Ranch will make sense to you the minute you step off the truck and hear how still it gets under the trees.

A drainage stitches through it, entering at the north and bending east, better than 1,050 ft of channel before it exits the eastern line. Most of the year it lies dry. When a storm builds over the plateau, that draw takes the runoff, and you can read the last one in the gravel and the leaf litter it left behind. What matters more, season to season, is what the low line does for the rest of the tract: the heaviest timber stands in it and beside it, the shade there is deepest at midday, and animals have used that route for as long as there have been animals here. Step it with us and you'll see what it's doing that week.

From the draw the land climbs roughly 55 ft, low end at 2,180 ft and high end at 2,235 ft. Nothing steep. That is a modest rise by plateau standards, and it still changes how you would use the property, since the upper end sheds water first after a rain and sits well above the wash. That upper bench is where we would start if a cabin or a set of pens is in your plans someday. What can be built here, and where, and what a septic or a well would take, are all things to confirm with us and with the county before you sign.

The ranch as a whole covers 4,683 acres of rising and falling terrain, wide valleys, and creek bottoms that stay dry between rains. Game travels all of it. Elk, turkey, dove and hogs are part of the picture, and the timber on 55 is the kind of thing they favor when the sun is high or a norther blows in. Mornings are still. Late in the fall the oaks color, the cedar holds its dark green, and evenings cool off quick enough that a fire is welcome.

This is a surveyed tract with its own recorded boundaries, and the plat spells out how you get in and out; we'll go over it with you line by line. Terms are straightforward. Owner financing is offered on every tract here, and the entry can start at 5%. The rules governing the ranch are short, meant to keep one owner from spoiling the quiet for the next, and guiding for pay isn't permitted anywhere on it. Power is set beside the county road and at other points through the ranch, so ask us which line sits shortest from this tract and confirm what a hookup would take before you count on it.

Wear boots that can take caliche and cedar stobs, and bring sleeves if you intend to push into the thick part. Fall is the season to see it, when the heat quits and the oaks turn. We'll put you at the north end where the draw enters, let you follow it east on foot until it leaves the property, then climb to the high end and turn a slow circle. Call and we'll set a day.