Lot 43

What Tract 43 does best is give you water and a way in, and it does both without much fuss. Cow Creek runs the east side of this 16.66-acre tract at the ranch just 9 miles up from town in McCulloch's center-of-Texas ranching belt, tracing roughly 560 feet of the eastern boundary as it works its way from top to bottom. A shorter draw feeds toward that same east side, another low place where runoff gathers after a rain. If you're looking at ranch land for sale where the creek does the talking, start here. Come stand on that east bank in spring and you'll understand what the property is for.

Now, our photos show water moving in that creek, and it's a fine sight. Creeks in this part of the state run with the seasons, so what you'll see depends on when you come and what the sky's been doing. We won't dress it up. Walk the creek with us and you can read the channel yourself, the cut banks, the pools, where the water pushes hard in a wet year. That's the honest way to size up a creek, standing in it.

The tract is long and narrow, running the same direction the creek does, and it lies nearly flat, only about 7 feet of fall from one end to the other. That's easy ground to move around on. Along the west side runs roughly 1,000 feet of existing dirt ranch road, top to bottom, the natural spine of the place and where your comings and goings will fall. Creek on one side, road on the other, level footing between them. The shape gives you a private stretch of creek frontage with the working track kept well off it.

The country here carries the mix that makes this part of Central Texas what it is, live oak and post oak, mesquite and elm, hackberry and cedar, with native grass and wildflowers filling in through the warm months. Deer and Rio Grande birds work these creek corridors and thickets, and a low, wet draw like the one on this tract is exactly the kind of place they move through morning and evening. Dove and quail hold in this country too. It's quiet out here, the kind of empty where you hear the wind before you hear anything else.

A few practical notes worth having straight. The tract is sold as a surveyed piece, and the recorded survey and title work set the true boundaries and any easements, not a fence or a track on the ground. Electric service runs in this part of the ranch, and we'll show you where the nearest line sits so you can plan a homesite or a hookup. Restrictions are kept light, with no commercial hunting allowed, so the place stays a working, personal ranch and not a lease operation next door. Owner financing is available with as little as 5% down, and the full terms print right beside this listing.

Bring boots you don't mind getting muddy and come after a rain if you can. That's when the creek shows you its real character, and it's the first thing we'll take you to see.