For Sale by the Owners:

34 Beautiful Rural Pasture and Forested Acreage.

This is the place you've been looking to own - this beautifully situated land is ideal for both private and/or commercial use. It has everything you want. Fully fenced, with wonderful neighbors, it's a Ozark paradise on 34.61 acres (M/L). It's in the Rolla School District (Blue Ribbon Schools). Driving to town is a convenient commute, even in winter weather (it's on a state highway). And it's a terrific investment! Don't miss this rare opportunity.

FEATURES

For the person searching for an attractive home site with plenty of room, there are dozens of choices available. Roughly equal parts improved pasture and old growth woods, there are many beautiful locations to build your dream home. A year-round natural spring-fed pond provides an additional option for creative home site location ideas. Locate your home in the healthy mature woods with oak, hickory, old cedars, dogwoods, and two historically significant 100+ year old pine trees. Or build in the open or near the edge of the woods in the large mostly flat pasture area. And there's plenty of room to add additional homes for other family members if you wish. There's enough land to enjoy privacy and family while you all enjoy the abundant deer, turkey, and other wildlife that live in the area ( fun fact: there is a strain of albinism in the local deer population; every few years an albino deer is observed ).

If you want to set up a business with visibility and easy access while you live on your property , this is the ideal spot for that dual use. With frontage on both county and state highway roads, your business ideas can flourish. With roughly 300 feet County road frontage and roughly 500 feet State highway frontage, you have plenty of room to create and develop your dream business.

HISTORY

The property is located in the southern portion of Phelps County, in south-central Missouri, near Rolla (population approaching 20,000). Rolla itself was founded in the 1860s and is a crossroads of Interstate Highway I-44 (the former Route 66) and State Highway 63. Rolla is a college town with the Missouri University of Science & Technology, Missouri’s Engineering School (listed as one of the Country’s ten-best). Consequently, the area enjoys a more cosmopolitan flavor than might be expected in rural Missouri.

The property has been in the same family for more than a century. The specific local area was originally settled in the mid to late 1800s by Europeans, primarily from Germany. The community called itself Elk Prairie. Haas, Meschke, Benad & Sachs are among the names of the people who settled here, primarily to farm. The northwest corner of this property faces the former site of the Elk Prairie Store and Post Office last owned by Charles Haas and served as the de facto center of this rural community. The land of the store is under the existing Highway 72 after the State improved and widened the highway in the late 1990s.

The property for sale is the last and acknowledged best portion owned by the Benad & Meschke familes for more than a century. There was a small cabin on the property about 100 years ago that was later dragged off to act as a grainery behind the new(er) family house east of the property. This remainder of the larger property was owned and farmed by the late Oscar & Naomi Meschke for more than 50 years, primarily for cattle and hay. This property has been owned by their daughter and her husband, Ardith & William McComb for more than three decades. For all these these years the 'big field' has been used for cattle and hay production.

UTILITIES

The area is served by Intercounty Electric Cooperative, a not-for-profit customer-owned electricity delivery system that has served our family flawlessly for decades. There is no electrical installation on the property but Intercounty lines run on both roads bordering the property (the beginning of the video shows the Intercounty lines in the lower left hand corner). Access is assured. Residential electric is relatively inexpensive; we are with Intercounty and pay less than 10 cents a kilowatt hour. By the way, members vote on directors and excess Coop income is distributed back to Coop members at occasional intervals.

Wireless communication is served by two cell phone towers within sight and a few hundred yards north and south of the property. Our iPhones display 4 bars reception standing in the big field on the property. Aptitude Internet Solutions offers high-speed fiber optic on Intercounty Electric poles along the property lines.

If the new owner is considering a wind and/or solar installation, one look at the property map illustrates the wonderful viability of this approach. The topography of the big field is relatively flat and is a high point of the Elk Prairie area. There is plenty of room (we estimate at least 15-16 acres) to install wind and/solar in this field and other spots on the property.

The property borders two improved roadways: County Road 4080 on the north composed of chip and seal with asphalt overlay and Missouri State Highway 72 on the west composed of concrete with improved right-of-way.

Phelps County Missouri has no county-wide building restrictions. This property is yours to build on as you will. It is advised to be cognizant of your neighbors when building; try not to build in a manner that might negatively affect your neighbors.