$275,000
12 acres
Harper, Texas
This Harper TX land for sale offers twelve easy, rolling acres with unobstructed sunset views and room to build the life you’ve been picturing. The land is already set up to go: a high-pressure water well and two separate 200-amp electric meters make it possible to build two structures, whether that’s a home and a guest house, a workshop, or a future rental. Three sides are fenced, the grass cover is excellent, and an ag exemption keeps carrying costs low.
Secluded but easy to access, this property suits recreational use, hunting, or a full-time residence, with only light restrictions to work around.
Quick Facts
- Address: 2112 Turkey Ridge Lane, Harper, TX 78631
- Price: $275,000
- Acreage: 12 acres of rolling terrain with excellent grass cover
- Distance to town: About 3.9 miles to Harper
- Water: High-pressure water well already in place
- Electric: Two separate 200-amp meters, ready to support two structures
- Fencing: Fenced on three sides
- Ag exemption: In place, keeping carrying costs low
- Restrictions: Light restrictions — parking an RV or travel trailer for immediate use is allowed
- Hunting: Allowed — whitetail and axis on the property
What Makes This Harper TX Land for Sale Ready to Build
Most raw acreage in the Hill Country comes with two expensive unknowns: water and power. A well can take months to schedule and there is no guarantee of what you hit; running electric service out to a remote building site can cost more than the dirt work. Both of those questions are already answered on this Harper TX land for sale. The high-pressure well is drilled and producing, and two separate 200-amp meters are set — which is why the property can support two structures rather than one. That opens up a main house with a guest house, a house with a shop, or a home now and a rental later.
The ag exemption matters more than it sounds. Texas taxes qualifying agricultural land on its productivity value rather than its market value, which can be the difference between a manageable annual tax bill and one that changes how you feel about holding the land. It is in place today. Whether it carries forward depends on continuing a qualifying use and filing with the county, so it is worth a call to the Gillespie Central Appraisal District before you close to hear exactly what they will want from you.
Because the restrictions are light, you can park an RV or travel trailer and start using the place right away — weekends out there while you plan a build, rather than paying on land you cannot touch yet. Three sides are already fenced, and the grass cover is strong across all twelve acres.
Hunting and Recreational Use
Hunting is allowed on this Harper TX land for sale, and there is game on it — whitetail and axis both move across the property in numbers. That combination is worth understanding. Whitetail are native game with a set season. Axis are classed as exotics in Texas, which means no closed season and no bag limit on private land, with a hunting license and the landowner’s permission all that is required. In practice it turns a seasonal property into a year-round one.
Far western Gillespie County is ranching country and has been for well over a century. Whether you want a weekend place to hunt and camp or a base you eventually live on full time, this is enough ground to actually use and little enough to manage yourself. Season dates, license requirements and harvest reporting all run through Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Living in Harper, Texas
Harper sits on US Highway 290 in far western Gillespie County, about twenty-three miles west of Fredericksburg. This property is roughly four miles out from town. Harper is a small ranching community with a school, a handful of churches and the everyday things you need close at hand — a different proposition from acreage that leaves you forty-five minutes from a gallon of milk.
Fredericksburg is close enough for a real grocery run, a doctor’s appointment or a night out among its restaurants and hundred-odd wineries and tasting rooms, and far enough that you are not living in the middle of it. What you get out here instead is quiet, open country, unobstructed western horizons, and the kind of night sky that is getting harder to find within a couple of hours of a Texas city.
More Hill Country Land and Homes
If twelve acres is more or less than you had in mind, the rest of the vacant land currently available is worth a look, along with the homes and land for sale across Kerr, Kendall and Gillespie County. Buying raw acreage asks different questions than buying a house — wells, easements, restrictions, what a septic system will run on a particular piece of ground. Jaylynn Perkins, Broker Associate with Realty Executives Kerrville, has sold Hill Country real estate for over a decade and is glad to walk through them with you before you make an offer.
Schedule a Showing
Interested in 2112 Turkey Ridge Lane? Call or text Jaylynn at 830-928-5766, or fill out the form below and she’ll be in touch to set up a time to walk the property.
