Lot 22

Follow the dirt approach in and the improvements come up on you gradually, a house with a carport where you can pull a truck into the shade and work a project through the heat of the afternoon. Behind it sit barns, more than one. Above the house a water tank catches the light, big enough that on a hot July day a man has been known to climb in and let it double as a pool. This is Tract 22 of the Pumpville Ranch, 275.95 acres of ranch land for sale in Val Verde County, and it carries the headquarters of the whole outfit.

A good stretch of dirt ranch trail already lies across it, nearly two miles of worked-in track leaning toward the southwest corner. That matters when you own a spread this size. You won't be cutting a new path to get from the house to the far pasture, the way in is already graded and packed by years of use. Treat it as an existing road on the tract and confirm access with us before you buy.

The land climbs a fair bit as you cross it, better than a hundred feet of rise from the low reaches up to the high shoulders near 2,100 ft. A cross fence built east to west, from the northwest corner over to the eastern edge, splits the acreage into two working pastures, so a man running a few head can rotate them without much fuss. There's fence holding most of the eastern edge. Some grass, and a run of scrub and thornbrush working from the northeast corner toward the south. Enough variety in the terrain to keep it interesting.

This is Pecos River canyon land, the empty reach past Del Rio where the trains once stopped at a little pump stop and then quit coming. Light restrictions keep commercial operations out, so the quiet holds. Owner financing runs with as little as 5% down. Call us to schedule a showing either in October when the heat breaks, or come down in August and go for a swim in the tank afterwards.