Lot 231

The land on Tract 231 doesn't sit flat and wait on you. It climbs. From the low ground up to the higher shoulder toward the northeast, you gain right around 87 ft of rise (roughly 629 to 716 ft) across this 83.66 acre piece of ranch land for sale on Tortuga Ranch in Duval County, Texas. That's real relief for South Texas brush country. Walk it and you feel the ground work under your boots, the low draws holding the heavier cover and the higher ground opening up as you top out. A place to build or a camp to park would want to sit up on that shoulder, where the air moves and you can look down over the brush you hunt.

A dry creek bed threads the low country here. It runs empty most of the time, and the honest word for it is a wash, ground the water uses when the rain finally comes. Come out and I'll walk it with you so you can see what it does and where it carries. Around it the mesquite and huisache grow the way this country has grown cover for two hundred years, thick enough to hold quail, dove, and the whitetail that made Duval County brush its name among hunters working the country around Freer and San Diego.

An existing dirt ranch road, call it about 1,510 ft of it, runs on the tract toward the east side. That's your working way across the ground, the track you'll use to move a truck or a trailer back to the higher country without cutting a new line through the brush. There's fence along the west side of the place, which gives you one worked edge to plan a layout against. The recorded survey governs where every line actually falls, so we'll put the plat in your hands and you can see your corners for yourself.

You should know what's on this tract before you drive down. There's an oil well and a tank battery on the ground here, actively pumping, and trucks come and go to service and haul from it. That's ordinary in this part of South Texas, where the oil patch and the brush country have shared the same fence lines for a hundred years, but it's the kind of thing a buyer wants to see with his own eyes rather than read about. Seven pipeline easements cross toward the southeast corner, common through this country, shown on the survey and set out in the title work. None of that changes the shape of the land or the cover it carries. It just means you'll want to walk it knowing what's there.

Tortuga Ranch runs behind a locked gate on its own ranch road, and landowners drive that road to reach their tracts. Every tract here is surveyed and carries deeded access on the ranch roads, so your way in is written down, not borrowed. Owner financing keeps the whole thing straightforward, with as little as 5% down to get started and a note we'll carry for the long haul.

Come in the cooler part of the year if you can, because the sun works hard on this brush in summer and there's no shade like a mesquite motte until you're standing in one. Wear boots you don't mind snagging. When you call, we'll meet you at the gate, run the ranch road back to 231, and walk you from the low wash up to the high shoulder so you can decide where you'd sit.