Lot 233

Set out at the eastern edge of Tract 233 and follow the perimeter with your eyes. The tract holds 14.91 acres of ranch land for sale on Tortuga Ranch in Duval County, and the shape of it reads as three seasonal draws that gather near the heart of the tract. One arm cuts about 480 ft across the interior. Another bends from the center out to the southwest, close to 460 ft of it. A third slips a shorter reach, near 250 ft, out to the southeastern angle. Wherever those cuts wander, that's the low green after a rain, and that's where the deer feed at dusk.

The rest of the tract is easy underfoot. It rolls gentle, only about 15 ft of fall across the whole piece, so nothing here fights you when you set a trail or figure where a camp house might one day face. That kind of flat-to-easy grade holds a South Texas thicket well. Mesquite, huisache, the cover this brush belt is known for. It's the same terrain that has made the ground near Freer and San Diego a name among whitetail, quail, and dove hunters.

There's a pumpjack standing on the tract. That means an operator has held an interest here and put steel on the site, which is ordinary across this stretch of Duval County. What it means for you as a buyer is worth confirming with us directly, and we'll go through what conveys and what doesn't when you come. Two pipeline easements cross the tract in the western reach, shown on the survey and set out in the title record, as they are on much of the land in this region.

History runs deep in this brush. Vaqueros were tending stock on the Spanish grants of this county back in 1815, before Texas was even Texas, and by the 1880s this same thorny range reportedly grazed more sheep than any other county in America. Land that has fed herds that long grows cover as thick as it grows grass.

Each tract on Tortuga has been surveyed, so your boundary is set on paper and your route in over the ranch roads is spelled out in the deed and plat. Owner financing keeps the entry simple, with as little as 5% down to get started. Walk it in early spring, when the draws still hold the last of the winter rain and the huisache is throwing its yellow. We'll meet you at the road and take the perimeter with you, arm of draw by arm of draw.