Blue River Pecan Ranch

Welcome to the Land Doctors latest listing, Blue River Pecan Ranch. This property 378-acre ranch is located roughly 12 miles east of Tishomingo, OK. Only a 1 hour 15-minute drive from the northeast extent of DFW, this property is ideally located for quick and easy access from Highway 48. Perhaps more importantly, the ranch sits at the confluence of the beautiful Blue River and the crystal-clear Sandy Creek. The Blue River frontage on the property is exceptional. It has roughly mile of frontage on both sides. With over 180,000 acres of drainage feeding this part of the river, an astounding 41 billion gallons of water flow through the ranch each year. The Sandy Creek watershed is only 27,000 acres but it contributes 7.5 billion gallons per year. But the water resources don't end there. According to the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the ranch also overlies the Antlers Formation, which consists of as much as 900 feet of friable sandstone, silt, clay, and shale, crops out in an area of 1,860 square miles and underlies about 4,400 square miles in southeastern Oklahoma and contains an estimated 10 trillion gallons of water. Water wells drilled into this formation can produce as much as 1700 gallons per minute. If you have been looking for a ranch with world class water resources, you just found it. One of the great aspects of having a ranch with this much river and creek frontage is that you get a higher percentage of high fertility soils. Almost 70 percent of the ranch is in river and creek bottom settings and has Class 2 soils. It's easy to see the richness of the soil by simply observing the vegetation. Massive pecan trees grow along both watercourses. These native groves of trees are beautiful and are great for tax depreciation purposes, in addition to occasionally producing a profitable pecan crop. The forage in the hay meadows grows as thick, tall and lush as you will see anywhere. In an average year, the ranch is easily capable of producing 450 tons of hay, equating to 750 round bales that weigh 1100 pounds. Blue River Pecan Ranch has primarily used for hay production recently and additional fencing and fence repairs will be needed if you wish to run cattle. There are three existing ponds in addition to the creek and river to water cattle. A 2100 square foot home was built on the property in 2015. The living area is split into a main area with kitchen, dining, living area, two bedrooms and bathroom and an additional guest suite with kitchenette, bedroom and bathroom. There is also a full bath in the laundry room. It has both a carport and garage with stormshelter. A small tractor shed is the only other structure on the property. We will be putting out cameras on the property to document the wildlife, but we can already tell you that the deer in this area are known for impressive mass. Blue River drains the limestone outcrops of the Arbuckle Mountains, and this supply of calcium enriched water and soil is beneficial to livestock and wildlife alike. Ranches with water resources, fertile soils and beauty like this one tend not to sell very often. Real farmers and ranchers need a productive place like this one to be profitable in agriculture. That is the case here, as the seller has owned this property for over 50 years. If you are looking for a diamond in the rough that has fantastic features but needs a bit of TLC to get it back up to its potential, then please call Kelly Hurt at 580 421 7512 . If you decide to come see it, you may just own it for the next half century.