The Land Ledger

Every property from the hunt on one folded paper insert, scored 0–7 against the wants: under $1M · has a house · 50+ acres · septic/plumbing · a water feature · road access · ≤30 minutes to work.

The ledger below is a trifold — folded it shows the essentials; use unfold (or the paper's right edge) to swing open more columns: drives, flood, utilities, notes. Click a column header to sort, use the checkboxes to filter. It folds itself shut before any page turn. Nothing is ever removed — sold and pending rows stay as price history.

Second scan of August 28, 2026 (all six counties + Washington Co. for the first time): 14 more listings added, Edge School House Rd cut its price to $1,075,000, M&B Ranch, the $205K Somerville tract, and the 16024 SH 36 house all went off-market, and 4796 Britten Rd went pending. Every row now carries Shoot (clay station: legal + room for shot-fall, shotgun only) and Stock (horses/livestock) marks: ✓ = yes · ? = depends on deed restrictions, ask · — = no. Utility columns: ✓ = stated or implied by a working house · ? = unknown · — = none. Every listing has county/FM road frontage. Drive-time correction (Aug 28): the Tabor Rd / Jackrabbit pocket re-checked against Zillow travel times — really ~35–38 min to work, not ~30; scores adjusted. Each entry's fine print now ends with a “to the dream” cost estimate (unfold fully to see): starter dwelling $110K · septic $12K · well $15K · power $10K · pond $25K · fencing $20K · main-house build ≈$550K — rough 2026 rural-Texas numbers, not quotes.

Selling the house (est. $800–900K) nets roughly $740–830K after selling costs — that covers most sub-$1.2M rows with a $300–450K mortgage (~$2,000–2,900/month). Without the sale: cheap raw land + a mobile home + build in phases. Either way, buy the land first, live small on it, build the big house when savings catch up. Ag exemption keeps property taxes near $500/yr instead of $15,000+.

Flood: Low = upland, no water named · Med = creek/pond on the tract or suspiciously cheap · High = river frontage or admitted floodplain. Free check at msc.fema.gov before any offer. A water feature scores a want and raises the flood flag — same coin, two sides.

Legally: yes. It's outside city limits and Texas counties can generally only restrict firearm discharge on lots of 10 acres or smaller in platted subdivisions — 22.4 unrestricted acres clears that (verify no deed restrictions, as always). Practically: it's tight but workable for shotguns only. Target loads drop their shot inside ~250–300 yards; 22.4 acres laid out square is roughly 950×1,000 ft, so one clay station aimed along the long diagonal into your own trees keeps every pellet on your land. The satellite view helps: woods to the north and east, neighbors sparse and mostly across the road or along the highway south. Orient the station north-east into the timber and the neighbors mostly hear, not receive. Rifles are a different story — no safe backstop at this size.

Pond: also yes, probably. Wooded tracts around Navasota carry drainages, and two neighboring properties on satellite already have ponds — the water table and soils cooperate here. A half-acre to 1-acre stocked pond is realistic ($15–40K); NRCS does free site consults. The honest read: 10314 delivers the house, the drive, horses, chickens, and a pond — clays as a careful compromise, cattle at hobby scale only. It's a 90% property; only more acres fix the rest.

Score = how many of the seven wants each row hits (hover a score for which). Commute minutes are typical 7:30am times, route-checked Aug 25–26 (free-flow runs 10–20 min quicker) — verify before touring. Statuses re-verified August 27–28, 2026; sold and pending rows are kept as market benchmarks. Sources: Land.com, Zillow, HAR.com, county MLS. Payment figures assume ~6.5–7% 30-year fixed — illustrations, not quotes.