A good way to check out the terrain is to use google earth, and tilt up some to see the terrain in 3D view. A friend of mine was looking at a similar plot in the same area a couple of months back and did that. He found that the property was an arroyo with a railroad trestle crossing the northern end. The property is parched dry 10 months of the year and flooded the other two. The seller claimed whitewater rafting but that would only be immediately after a thunderstorm.
That is definitely desert, and isolated. Wells would need to be many hundreds of feet deep and then might give you brackish water that would have to be purified before use.
There are a couple of companies that are selling many plots in the area, and the good news is that even if someone buys next to you there is a good chance that they will never do anything with the property. So, you might be all by yourself with nobody anywhere near. "Big" towns in the area include Presidio and Terlingua. Presidio had a population of around 4,000 about ten years ago. Terlingua is a entry point for whitewater rafting in Santa Elena Canyon in the spring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio,_Texas
http://www.historic-terlingua.com/
If you want to be all alone in the middle of nowhere with very low humidity most of the time, lots of heat in the summer, and the only shade being under a rattlesnake's belly, this could be perfect for you.
Spaceman
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Laura <lauranfriends@...> wrote:
>
> LOL
> Good for you,
> being an ex-californian for 20years now living in Texas...
> but... the reason some things are so cheap
> cause the natives out here aka redneck cowboys do know a thing or two.
>
>
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