Horse Property, Homestead, Retirement, Rural Living

Private offering. Land For Sale: 142.63 acres, Erath County, Stephenville, Texas. Any new survey is the responsibility of the buyer (s). A survey is available. The owner is not a broker or agent. The buyer is responsible for any and all real estate commission paid to buyer's broker/agent. The property has over 1,500 feet of county road 124 frontage, a good graveled all weather culvert entrance, and a dozer-built reworked road which enters the property at county road 124 and proceeds to the rear one third of the property. The land is located north of Stephenville, Texas, 15 miles from the intersection of Farm to Market 8 (Lingelville Road) and state highway 108 (Huckaby Highway), north and just east of Huckaby, Texas, on county road 124. County Road 124 is a well-maintained, crushed asphalt-gravel mixed county road and the gate entrance is 0.6 of a mile from FM 1188. The property is less than 6 miles from Huckaby, Texas, 15 miles from Morgan Mill, 12 miles from Tarleton State University Doty Rodeo Arena, 10 miles from Interstate 20 at the highway 108 exit, 48 miles to Weatherford, 75 miles to Fort Worth, 93 miles to Abilene, and less than 10 miles to major equine infrastructure for pleasure, rodeo, cutting horse, and futurity training. At the last time checked the location is in Stephenville, Texas School District,. Morgan Mill school district has added grades 9-12 and it as well as Huckaby are actually the closest K-12 schools. Stephenville high school district has a US recognized FFA program with numerous national FFA first and second place winners in many different competition categories. In 2017 Stephenville FFA possessed the most first place National FFA winners of any FFA chapter in the United States per National FFA records. The surrounding area of the property is mostly larger ranches with native or improved pasture land. One well maintained home and good neighbor immediately borders the property on the southwest. The property was fenced within the last five years. There are multiple other gate entries including one at the back of the property to the spring, one on the south and east to the creek border, and one to the north and west to an adjacent larger ranch. A smaller part of the total 142.63 acres is wooded at the north or back of rhe property and along the creeks. Trees are mostly oak and pecan with cottonwood in the creeks where water collects yearly. Trees are sparsely scattered in the open land and excellent whitetail, turkey, and small game animal hunting exists. *The double deer stand will be removed before closing*. A dry, seasonal creek borders one long side of the land and a second creek adjoining the first is a partial boundary on the northwest. There is a spring in a feeder creek located in the back wooded section of the property that continued to run during the last extreme drought. Coastal Bermuda grass is present and Giant Bermuda (NK-37) was seeded on the property in 2022 and overseeded again in 2025 due to drought impact in 2022-23. The land, excluding the wooded area, was cleared of thick trees, brush. and scrub, then raked, and cultivated multiple times prior to seeding in 2022. Five tons per acre of compost was applied for soil fertility. In May 2026 the property was treated for broadleaf weeds and undesirable grass species. Native grass and both species of bermuda exists across the open areas. The soil is a combination of sand, sandy loam, and loam soils with one elevation rise. A rocky flat shelf and a few acres of rocky soil lead to a hill (off property) with an excellent home or barn building site overlooking the land is present. The land is mostly a class I with less than 2% slope. There is one stock tank (not stocked) which was cleaned and reworked in 2022 and maintained good water levels during the last drought. The location has one well, well house, and adjacent meter (active power), but power is not connected to the well at this time. The well was reworked by a local well company and includes a new pump. An uplift in the aquifer is located on the south and west side of the property on the rise from the rock shelf to the adjacent hill. This formation (uplifted knoll among flat terrain) is present in the northern part of the county. My home, less than 10 miles directly, is located on one of these uplifts. My well is less than 160 foot deep and has static water about 135-140 feet. The water is excellent quality and volume is good for home, animals, and general use in this type of formation. Few properties of this size exist for sale in Erath County, or Stephenville, Huckaby, or Morgan Mill school districts that are mostly open grassland and deep good deep sandy, sandy loam, or loam soils.