AN ERATH COUNTY LEGACY
hree hundred nineteen acres on Highway 281, fourteen miles north of
Stephenville. Two gated entrances, two wells, three tanks. A house built to last generations on a high ridge with views in every direction.
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The Abbotts have held this land since 1998. Twenty-eight years. They are not leaving the place. They are passing it on.
"The next owner does not just buy a property. They take a piece of Texas into their hands."
At a Glance
KD Ranch is offered three ways to give the right buyer the right scale. The full 319.44 acres including the custom home. The home with approximately 36 acres. Or the balance of the land, approximately 283 acres, sold separately.
ADDRESS
27475 N US Highway 281
COUNTY
Erath County, Texas
TOTAL ACREAGE
319.44 ± Acres
MINERAL RIGHTS
Negotiable
1,570 ft on US-281
ELEVATION
1,090 to 1,260 ft
TAX EXEMPTION
Agricultural
2025 PROPERTY TAX
$4,360.53
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Morgan Mill ISD · Stephenville HS
RESTRICTIONS
None on full purchase
THE LAND
Carved from Jordan Ranch
A place with a past.
In 1998, The Abbotts bought 319 acres carved from the historic Jordan Ranch, a five-thousand-acre Erath County holding that traces back to settlers who arrived in this country in the 1850s. There is a settler site just off the driveway. The original stone is still there. The chimney has long since fallen.
Forty-two acres are cleared and grazed in Coastal Bermuda and Bluestem. The balance is wooded with live oak, post oak, and mesquite. The elevation rises from 1,090 to 1,260 feet, giving the property high ground and long views in every direction. Locals have a name for the stretch of 281 in front. They call it Jordan Hill. The top ridge has a name too. They call it Buck Ridge.
WATER
Two wells. Three tanks.
Two water wells, both producing twelve gallons per minute or better. The first sits beside the house and runs a waterline down to the stables and the lower tank. The second is north of the home on the bluff.
Three earthen tanks hold water year round. The main tank is spring-fed. The lower field tank and the large back tank are both stocked with minnows and perch. Water on this property is not a worry.
HUNTING & WILDLIFE
Light pressure.
Whitetail deer, Rio Grande turkey, mourning dove, and varmints. The Abbotts have hunted the ranch lightly for the past five years, which means the next owner steps into a property with very low recent pressure and the herd that comes with that kind of restraint.
Two bow stands. One box blind. Three feeders. Buck Ridge, at the top of the ranch, is named for what comes off it. There is a ten point mounted in the upstairs office, taken with a bow.
"Twenty-eight years of stewardship. A piece of Erath County that has been kept, not just owned. The Abbotts are ready to pass it on."
KD RANCH
THE HOME
Built by David Taylor.
Two thousand and forty square feet.
Custom-built in 2011 by David Taylor Construction. Hill Country ranch style. Rock and stone exterior, standing seam metal roof, slab foundation, two-by-six framed walls with sprayed urethane foam insulation. Three bedrooms. Two baths. The primary bedroom is on the first level.
Hand-scraped mesquite floors on the second level. Custom mesquite and knotty alder doors throughout. The stair banisters are hand-forged iron, made by a Western artisan in Colorado. The fireplace is dry-stack stone, wood-burning.
The kitchen has quartz counters, custom cabinetry, gas appliances, a commercial range and vent, a kitchen island, and a walk-in pantry. The porch wraps the house for 1,744 square feet of covered living.
IMPROVEMENTS & SYSTEMS
Quietly well-built.
The extra details..
A wellhouse and storage building, 120 square feet, sits behind the home, built in 2010. A 30 by 30 porte cochère added in 2024 covers the driveway, with 225 square feet of unfinished storage above. A 1,248 square foot slab was poured in 2021 for a future barn.
Well water with filtration. Septic. Tankless water heater. A 500-gallon in-ground propane tank behind the wellhouse. United Cooperative provides both electric service and offers fiber internet to the home.
THE RARENESS OF 319 ACRES
A scale that does not come back.
"Big enough to be a real ranch, intimate enough to know every corner of it by heart."
Three hundred nineteen contiguous acres on US Highway 281, fourteen miles north of Stephenville. In Erath County, that combination does not come up often. Parcels at this size, with this kind of frontage, are increasingly being broken into ranchettes and sold off in twenty acre and forty acre tracts to keep up with the demand coming out of Fort Worth.
KD Ranch is something different. One holding. Two contiguous parcels, two gated entrances, twenty-eight years of single-family stewardship. The land has been held the way the land was meant to be held. Intact. Quiet. The deer left alone. The fences walked.
Scarcity paired with this kind of quality is what separates a property you buy from a place you keep for the rest of your life.
The Gallery
THREE CONFIGURATIONS · ONE PROPERTY
Three Ways to Own KD Ranch
KD Ranch is offered as a single 319.44 acre property, as the home with approximately 36 acres, or as approximately 283 acres of land sold without the home. The right scale for the right buyer.
ERATH COUNTY · 14 MILES NORTH OF STEPHENVILLE
FIND KD Ranch
On Highway 281, north of town.
27475 N US Highway 281
Stephenville, Texas 76401
GPS · 32.43405, -98.146
Stephenville
14 mi
glen rose
26 mi
gRANBURY
35 MI
FORT WORTH
75 MI
Dallas / DFW Airport
80 MI
Dylan Davis
Broker · Founder · Luxe West Realty
DIRECT
325.514.4545
OFFICE
899 W. Washington St.
Stephenville, TX 76401
TEXAS BROKER · TREC #0635619
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