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Lawrence County, Missouri

2.5 unrestricted acres, already set up to use.

Wooded tract on a paved county road between Mount Vernon and Aurora. 30 and 50 amp power is already on site, the driveway is in, and there is a cleared campsite waiting. The septic soil evaluation is done and it passed. No zoning. No HOA. No restrictions.

Pending. A buyer has signed for this tract and closing is set for November. If it falls through, it comes back at the same price. Leave your details to hear first, or about the next tract like it.
Cash price
$34,900
2.5 acres · $13,960/acre
Or on terms
$12,000 down
30% down on a $40,000 financed purchase price. $532.95 a month for 72 months: read the terms

Off market. No agent, no commission, no listing fee. We hold this tract under contract and are selling that position: at closing you buy the land from the owner by assignment or novation, and the asking price is the price.

Parcel 137025000000010001 · County Road 2180, Mount Vernon, MO 65712 · Outline is generated from county parcel data and is approximate. It is not a survey.
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Drone photograph looking north over the tract, its boundary outlined, running back from County Road 2180 into mature timber with open pasture to the east.
Acreage
2.5
assessor
Road frontage
161 ft
paved CR 2180
Power
On site
30 & 50 amp
Zoning
None
no HOA either
Flood / wetland
0%
neither present
Annual tax
$135
2025 bill
The part most land doesn't have

Somebody already did the first year of work.

Most recreational land you look at is a line on a map and a wall of brush. On this one the utility is in the ground, the drive is cut, and there is a flat spot with a fire ring on it.

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Power, underground

A 30 amp and a 50 amp hookup at the campsite, fed by an underground service from the pole at the road. No lines strung through your trees. Meter is on site.

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Two drives, in and out

A main drive from the county road into the campsite with room to turn a rig around, plus a second drive that enters ten feet west of the southwest corner and loops back to the same clearing.

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A campsite, not a plan for one

The clearing is already open. This tract has been used as a family camp twice a year for several years. Pull in, plug in, and you are camping the same afternoon.

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Mature timber on three sides

Heavy canopy across the whole tract, and the parcel sits on the corner of a much larger continuous timber block. Wildlife moves through it. You cannot plant your way into this.

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Genuinely quiet

Under ten vehicles passed on a Saturday morning. One neighbor is visible from the road; the second is hidden in the trees. Birds and insects, and farm equipment somewhere far off.

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High and dry

The parcel sits at the top of the hill and sheds water away from itself. Zero flood zone, zero wetland. A shallow, rocky seasonal runoff creek forms the north boundary.

Photographed on site, August 22, 2026

What it actually looks like.

A photographer walked the whole tract on a Saturday morning and shot it straight: no filters, no staging, and the ugly parts left in.

Aerial view over the timber block, the county road running along its southern edge.
Looking northwest. The tract runs north off the road, into the near edge of that timber.
Paved county road running past the wooded frontage, power pole at the roadside.
161 ft of frontage on paved County Road 2180, power pole at the road.
Cleared drive area under the tree canopy.
The main drive, in from the road with room to turn a rig around.
Electric meter and hookup pedestal standing at the campsite.
The meter and hookup pedestal at the campsite: 30 amp and 50 amp, fed underground.
Cleared campsite with a travel trailer parked under the trees.
The cleared campsite. The camper, the refrigerator and the loose equipment all come off before the sale. None of it conveys.
Open grassy clearing surrounded by mature trees.
Open ground around the drive. Most of the level area sits in the south half.
Second drive track leading into the woods.
The second drive, entering about ten feet west of the southwest corner.
Mature hardwood trunks with sunlight through the canopy.
Mature hardwood through most of the tract.
Dappled light on the forest floor between hardwood trunks.
Canopy gaps open up sporadically across the cleared areas.
Small natural clearing in the middle of the woods.
One of two smaller openings toward the north end.
Wooded interior with leaf litter and understory growth.
Off the drives it gets thick. This is the honest version of the interior.
Utility marker post in the grass at the roadside.
Data or phone line marked at the road.
View along the paved county road with a neighbouring house in the distance.
Looking down CR 2180. Under ten vehicles passed all morning.
Aerial view south over unbroken timber with farmland on the horizon.
The timber runs a long way. That is why there is wildlife on two and a half acres.
Aerial view of the county road cutting between timber and open farmland.
Timber on one side of the road, open farm ground on the other.
The shape of the ground

Flat where you'd build. Falls away at the back.

We sampled USGS elevation every twenty-three feet down the middle of the tract, from the county road to the north boundary. It is not a gentle guess. It is the actual profile.

Satellite view with the parcel boundary outlined in yellow, a narrow strip running north from County Road 2180.
The tract on satellite, straight down: 161 ft of frontage on the county road, about 675 ft deep, mature timber the whole way. Open farm ground begins a short way east; the big timber block runs west.
1280129013001310 ft Level building ground: first ≈350 ft, 2.3% grade County Road 2180 ← about 675 ft deep → North boundary
  • The first 350 feet barely moves. Eight feet of fall across the whole front third, a 2.3% grade. That is the flattest, most usable ground on the tract, and it is the part closest to the power and the drive.
  • Then it steps down. Past the halfway mark the grade steepens to roughly 9%, dropping about twenty-three feet to the low corner. For a house set at the middle of the tract, that fall behind it is what makes a walk-out basement possible.
  • Thirty-one feet of relief, total. High point 1,309 ft at the road, low point 1,279 ft near the north-east corner where the seasonal runoff creek runs.
  • Water leaves, it doesn't collect. The tract sits at the top of the hill and sheds north and east. No standing water anywhere on it at inspection, no flood zone, no wetland. The seasonal drainage at the low corner is not a mapped stream. It appears neither on the USGS 7.5-minute quad nor in the National Hydrography Dataset.
The question everybody asks

You can build on almost anything. The question is what it costs.

There is no zoning here and no prior septic to inherit, so nothing forbids a build. On any unbuilt tract the one bill that really moves is the wastewater system, and which system you need is decided by a soil pit, not by us. So we hired a registered soil scientist and had the pit dug at our expense on September 2, 2026. It passed. This ground supports a standard conventional gravity system, the cheap end of the range, and does not need an advanced one. The signed report landed and you can read all three pages of it here. A local installer has since priced that system in writing at $8,500.

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Already bought and paid for

Electric run underground to a meter and a 30/50 amp hookup. A drive cut from the road with room to turn around. A cleared site. On raw ground those are the first three cheques a buyer writes, and here they are behind you.

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Septic: conventional

A conventional gravity field is the cheap end and an advanced system is the expensive end. Only a soil scientist reading a four-foot pit can tell you which, so we paid for the pit rather than leave it to you. It came back conventional. A local installer has priced that exact system, for a three-bedroom house, at $8,500 in writing. That is the whole wastewater bill on this tract, and it is the smaller of the two.

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Then the well

There is no public water here, so you drill, the same as every neighbour. We pulled the state records for all fourteen wells within a mile to find out what that takes: every one found water, none is dry, and the median makes 60 gallons a minute. Budget $20,000 and the whole record is further down this page.

What the county told us

  • There is no zoning here. Lawrence County has no county zoning outside the towns. Stick, modular, manufactured, barndominium: the county does not restrict it, and the deed carries no restrictions or HOA.
  • No septic has ever been permitted on this tract, and no failed application exists. We had the health department pull the inventory on this address and the neighbouring ones.
  • Under three acres means a county construction permit for any new system. That is the ordinary path here, not an obstacle, and the health department publishes its lists of registered installers and pumpers.

What the soil scientist found

  • Conventional gravity system. No advanced system required. Missouri does not perc-test; a registered soil scientist digs a four-foot pit and reads the soil directly. That is what was done here, and the report calls for a standard system with no pump and no low-pressure pipe.
  • Rated provisionally suitable, with one condition, and the condition is how the field is laid out: the laterals have to follow the contour of the land, because the site sits on a 6% backslope. That is a line on the installer's drawing, not a surcharge. Every other factor on the form is blank: no surface water to divert, no interceptor drain, no restrictive horizon, no bedrock, no fragipan, no clay pan.
  • No water table found at all. The pit went down 48 inches and the seasonal high water table line on the report reads none. Available space for the field and its reserve is marked adequate.
  • Written up for three bedrooms, which is the ordinary way these are documented: 360 gallons a day, a 900 sq ft absorption field and a 1,080 gallon minimum tank. A larger house means a larger tank and field on the same passing evaluation, not a new one.

What the pit actually showed

Denny Mayne dug one pit to four feet on September 2, 2026 and described every horizon in it. He is a Missouri registered soil scientist, number 10125, and he is on the county health department's own published list. These are his numbers, not our reading of them, and the full signed report is linked under the table.

Suitability rating
Provisionally suitable
One condition: laterals follow the contour
System type
Standard
Gravity. No pump, no advanced system
Installed, quoted
$8,500
Three bedrooms, in writing
Absorption field
900 sq ft
At a 0.4 gpd/sq ft loading rate
Minimum tank
1,080 gal
Three bedrooms, 360 gpd
Water table
None found
Pit taken down to 48 in
HorizonDepthTextureClayChert over 3 inConsistenceStructure
O0–2 inLeaf litter and duffNot described
A2–9 inSilt loam12%5%FriableGranular
E9–18 inSilt loam18%10%FriableSubangular blocky
Bt118–26 inSilt loam26%20%FriableSubangular blocky
Bt226–31 inSilty clay loam32%20%FirmSubangular blocky
2Bt331–48 inClay58%30%FirmAngular blocky

Pit No. 1, excavated to 48 in at 37.01627, −93.83966. Parent material colluvium over residuum, clay type non-expanding, cover hardwood timber. Soil depth greater than 48 in, no restrictive horizon recorded, no bedrock and no rock-fragment layer over 50%. Site and soil evaluation for on-site wastewater disposal system, Denny Mayne, Mayne Soil Consulting, September 2, 2026, all three pages.

The one line in that table that decides the cost

Heavy clay is what forces a house onto an expensive system, and on this pit it does not appear until 31 inches down. Above it sit 26 inches of friable silt loam running 12% to 26% clay. The report puts the trenches at 18 inches, which is in the silt loam and well above the clay, and that is why the loading rate came back at 0.4 and the recommended system is the plain gravity one. The clay that is down there is also recorded as non-expanding, which is the kind that stays where you put it.

The sequence, front to back

A narrow tract decides its own layout. You come off the county road at the high end, the ground runs level for the first 350 feet and then falls away, so the well goes at the top, the house sits where the level ground ends, and the wastewater goes downhill of both. Here is that laid over the same USGS elevation profile from further up the page.

1280129013001310 ft WELL 75 ft in · high point HOUSE 350 ft in · 8 ft lower SEPTIC FIELD 562 ft in · 24 ft lower County Road 2180 ← 487 ft from the well to the field → North boundary

Swipe the drawing sideways to see the whole tract. The same cross-section as the topography section above, looking at the tract side on. The septic marker is the real thing: it is the soil pit Denny Mayne dug and passed, plotted from the coordinate on his report. The well and the house are the plan, not stakes in the ground. Nothing is built, nothing is sited, and your driller and installer set the final spots on the day.

How we are laying the site out

The tract is a narrow strip, roughly 150 feet wide and about 675 feet deep, so a build here runs along its length, and the order in the drawing above is the one the ground allows rather than a preference. The well sits at the top of the fall and the drainfield at the bottom, 487 feet apart and 24 feet of elevation between them. The house lands where the level ground ends, so the fall behind it is what makes a walk-out basement possible, and the front third stays as a buffer between the house and the road.

The report confirms that plan rather than changing it. The pit that passed was dug 562 feet back from the county road and about 115 feet short of the back line, near enough dead centre between the two side lines, which is the back third where we said the system would go. It is a test hole, not a staked field, and the report asks for the absorption field to be spread over as wide an area as the landscape allows. It adds three rules your installer will already know: the laterals run along the contour, the field does not sit directly upslope of the house, and roof and foundation drainage gets directed away from it.

And if you just want to use it

None of this is in your way. A well and a septic system are what a house needs. They are not what camping needs. The hookup, the drive and the cleared site are there now, so you can pull in this weekend and sort the rest out whenever, or never.

We published all of this so you can budget before you spend a dollar on field work. The soil evaluation is ours, ordered and paid for at our expense, and it comes with the tract. It cost $550 and you are not paying it twice. You hand your installer the completed evaluation and he takes it to the county for the permit, so the field work and the waiting are already behind you. The system and the well stay yours to commission, and the tract is priced that way. The installer quote is in at $8,500 and is published above. The driller quotes are still being gathered and go up here as they land.

The other half of the water question

Fourteen wells inside a mile. Not one of them dry.

Missouri keeps a certified record of every well drilled since 1986, so rather than take anybody's word for the water here we pulled all fourteen inside a one-mile radius and read what they actually hit. Every one of them found water, the weakest makes 20 gallons a minute, and the water table has not moved in thirty years. Here is the whole record, and what it means for what you would spend.

Wells within 1 mile
14
All recorded active
Depth range
300–585 ft
Median 385 ft
Median yield
60 gpm
Lowest was 20 gpm
Dry holes
0
None within 5 miles either
Static water level
50–150 ft
Median 100 ft down
Casing
84–147 ft
Steel, every one of them
DistanceYearTotal depthGround elev.Static waterYieldCasingDeepest formation
0.27 mi SE2015385 ft1,276 ft100 ft60 gpm101 ftCotter dolomite
0.40 mi W2006385 ft1,324 ft135 ft60 gpm147 ftCotter dolomite
0.47 mi SSE2011345 ft1,286 ft120 ft80 gpm84 ftCotter dolomite
0.53 mi NE2000491 ft1,244 ft50 ft50 gpm84 ftLimestone
0.53 mi NE2003358 ft1,244 ft80 ftnot recorded105 ftLimestone
0.64 mi WNW2000323 ft1,316 ft120 ft50 gpm120 ftJefferson City dolomite
0.69 mi W2012420 ft1,340 ft150 ft35 gpm84 ftLimestone
0.75 mi W1997300 ft1,336 ft120 ft20 gpm84 ftLimestone and chert
0.80 mi NNE2020365 ft1,207 ft60 ft60 gpm126 ftCotter dolomite
0.83 mi SE2010300 ft1,203 ft90 ft60 gpm84 ftLimestone
0.85 mi N2018425 ft1,311 ft100 ft80 gpm84 ftCotter dolomite
0.90 mi SW2005565 ft1,298 ft150 ft45 gpm84 ftLimestone
0.90 mi SW2005585 ft1,298 ft90 ft45 gpm84 ftLimestone
0.94 mi NNW2001438 ft1,292 ftnot recorded120 gpm105 ftDolomite

Missouri Department of Natural Resources certified water well records, pulled September 8, 2026. Ground elevation at each well site is from the USGS national elevation dataset, not from the well record. You can look these up yourself in the state's own well log viewer, and we would rather you did.

What the record rules out

  • Nobody around here has drilled a dry hole. Not one of the fourteen, and not one of the 488 active wells within five miles. The weakest well in the mile makes 20 gallons a minute and the median makes 60. A household uses a fraction of that.
  • The water table is not dropping. Measured as elevation rather than depth, the static water level within three miles reads 1,147 ft in the 1990s, 1,177 ft in the 2000s, 1,166 ft in the 2010s and 1,147 ft in the 2020s. Flat. Expect water standing around 110 to 160 feet below grade here.
  • This is karst country, and the logs put a number on it. Seventeen of 488 logs within five miles note a void or cavity, and none record lost circulation. The only void inside our mile is a two-foot gap at 25 to 27 feet, shallow enough that the casing passes straight through it.
  • One abandoned well within a mile, 90 feet deep, plugged in 2015. Old shallow wells around here get retired in favour of deep ones. There is no cluster of failed deep holes nearby.

How deep, and what that costs

  • Expect 400 to 500 feet here. The raw median is 385 ft, but those wells sit between 1,203 and 1,340 feet of elevation and a well started higher up the hill has further to go to reach the same water. Our building site is at 1,308 feet, higher ground than ten of the fourteen, so we corrected for it rather than quote you the flattering number.
  • Here is the correction, so you can check it. Converting each well to the depth that same completion would need starting from our elevation gives a median of 420 feet against the fourteen nearby wells, 476 feet against the 145 within three miles, and 495 feet against the 31 drilled since 2015.
  • What $20,000 buys is a good well, not a compromise. Every modern well here finishes in the Cotter dolomite, the Ozark aquifer, which is what the towns around you drink. The median neighbour makes 60 gallons a minute where a house needs a fraction of that, and once it is in there is no monthly water bill behind it, ever.
  • The geology is legible, which is why the estimate holds. Fifteen to seventy feet of soil and chert gravel, then Mississippian limestone to about 150 to 230 feet, then a thin band of Northview shale, and below it the Cotter dolomite. It is the same layer cake in every log, which is what lets us put a range on your well instead of a shrug.
What a driller quoted us, and what we are still chasing

Marty's Pump Service of Marionville quoted us $18,000 to $20,000 for a 500-foot well and pump on September 8, 2026. That is $36 to $40 a foot all in, which is mid-range for Missouri, and the well record above says 500 feet is a realistic depth for this site. It came in as a one-line text, so there is no scope breakdown behind it yet.

The one line we want filled in is the rate per foot past 500. Against the corrected figures above, 500 feet covers about four out of five of the wells in our mile. Every extra hundred feet runs about $3,600 to $4,000, so a 600-foot well is $22,000 to $24,000, and that is the top of the range rather than the likely outcome.

So budget $20,000, and put the overage rate in your driller's contract in writing. That is the advice we would give a friend, and the reason we went and pulled the records at all: a number you can plan against beats a number that sounds nicer.

The same two bills follow you to any tract you buy

A well is not a cost of this tract. It is the cost of a well anywhere on this ridge, and fourteen households inside a mile of you have already written that cheque. Every bare tract in the sales table further down carries the identical one, and a septic bill behind it. The well is a constant, so it cannot make one piece of ground dearer than another. The septic is only a constant until somebody digs a pit, and on this tract that has been done and it came back the cheap end.

What actually differs from one tract to the next is what has already been bought and paid for, and that is where this one is ahead. Here it is against the closest bare comparable in that table, a real recorded sale four miles away.

To put a house on it, you needThis tract, $34,900Lawrence 2194, sold $25,000 in May 2025
The land$34,900 · 2.5 ac$25,000 · 2.96 ac
A wellabout $20,000about $20,000
A septic system$8,500, quoted in writing. The pit is dug, the evaluation passed for a conventional system, and the signed report comes with the tract.Not known. We have no soil evaluation for that tract, so its system type and cost are open until a soil scientist digs a pit there.
Power at the building siteIn and paid for. Run underground to a meter, 30 and 50 amp.Not run. A co-op line extension is designed and priced per job, so nobody can tell you the number until they survey it.
A drive off the roadCut, with room to turn a camper around.Not cut.
A cleared spot to build onDone. Open site with a fire ring on it.Wooded.
Freedom to build what you wantNo zoning, no HOA, no deed restrictions of record.No county zoning either, but it sits inside a named subdivision. We have not checked what that carries.

That tract is half an acre bigger and $9,900 cheaper, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What the $9,900 buys here is the bottom four rows and the septic line above them: a live meter, a cut drive, an open site, nothing in the deed telling you what you may put on it, and a wastewater bill that is a fixed number instead of a range with no top on it. Those are the first three cheques anybody writes on raw ground, and on this one they are already behind you.

The simplest way to read the whole table

Every row except the first is a bill you only write on the day you decide to build. The cost of owning and using this place this year is $34,900 and a $135 tax bill, because the power, the drive and the site are already in. On bare ground you would be paying a utility crew and a dozer, and waiting on both, before you could so much as park. Here you can park on it this weekend and decide about the rest later, or never.

We are gathering two more quotes from drillers working Mount Vernon and Aurora and will publish them here beside the first one, including the overage rates, whatever they say. If they come back cheaper we will tell you that too.

Everything we know, including what we don't

The due diligence, published.

Most land listings tell you what is good. This is the whole file, verified, in progress and open, so you can price the unknowns yourself instead of discovering them after closing.

ItemStatusWhat we found
Legal accessVerified161 ft of frontage on County Road 2180, a maintained paved county road. Not landlocked.
Physical accessVerifiedMain drive in place from the road to the campsite; room to turn a camper. Entry is unfinished: no culvert or ramp, with a shallow drainage ditch between road and drive. The road crowns at the entry and drainage runs away from the parcel.
ElectricVerifiedPole at the road, meter at the campsite, service run underground. 30 amp and 50 amp hookups. Account transfer is the buyer's to arrange.
TelecomVerifiedData or phone line visible at the road.
ZoningVerifiedNo county zoning. Septic permitting is the only land-use gate. Outside city limits.
HOA / restrictionsVerifiedNone of record. No subdivision, no HOA, no deed restrictions found.
Flood & wetlandsVerified0% flood zone, 0% wetlands. Elevation 1,274–1,310 ft; the tract sits at the top of the hill. The seasonal drainage near the low corner is not a mapped stream, absent from both the USGS 7.5-minute quad and the National Hydrography Dataset.
Prior septic recordVerifiedLawrence County Health Department has no application, permit or failure on file for this tract: nothing to inherit and nothing to remediate. The county ordinance dates to 1996.
TopographyVerifiedUSGS elevation sampled every 23 ft along the centreline: 1,309 ft at the road, 2.3% grade across the first 350 ft, then falling to 1,279 ft near the north-east corner. 31 ft of relief across the whole tract.
Site inspectionVerifiedFull walkthrough and professional photography on August 22, 2026. Notes on terrain, cover, drainage, utilities and negatives are summarized on this page.
TaxesVerified$135 for 2025. Any arrears are the current owner's responsibility and are cleared at closing.
TitleVerifiedALTA Commitment for Title Insurance in hand from True Title Company, underwritten by Westcor Land Title Insurance Company, clear to insure. Full commitment available on request; buyer's closing attorney reviews it line by line at closing as a matter of course.
Soil evaluationVerifiedPASSED for a standard conventional gravity system. No advanced system required. Denny Mayne, Missouri registered soil scientist number 10125 of Verona, dug the evaluation pit on September 2, 2026. This was at our expense, not yours ($550); the normal path here is for the buyer to order it, and we chose not to leave the biggest unknown on the tract to you. The signed report is now in hand and published in full, in the row below.
Soil evaluation reportVerifiedIn hand and published here in full, all three pages, signed September 2, 2026. Rated provisionally suitable for a standard system, the one condition being that the laterals follow the contour of a 6% backslope. Three bedrooms, 360 gpd, 900 sq ft absorption area, 1,080 gallon minimum tank, 18 in trenches. No seasonal high water table, no restrictive horizon, no bedrock, available space marked adequate. Per the soil scientist the evaluation itself does not change with house size: Missouri sizes the system by bedroom count, so a larger house means a larger tank and field on the same passing evaluation, not a new one. The form carries the state's standard language that no evaluation guarantees a system will function properly.
Septic bidVerified$8,500 for the three-bedroom standard system the report calls for, quoted in writing by Abe Sherwood Services of Verona on September 10, 2026, on a written order form addressed to us. One quote, one line, no scope breakdown and no stated expiry, so treat it as the number to plan around and get your own installer to confirm it against his own drawing. We are not marking it up and we are not taking a cut of it; you hire him or anybody else you like. Whoever installs it works off this same evaluation and takes it to the county for the permit. The health department publishes its list of registered installers, so you can compare the number against anyone on it.
Neighbouring well recordsVerifiedAll 14 Missouri DNR certified well records within one mile pulled September 8, 2026 and published in full on this page, with 488 more inside five miles used for context. Depths 300 to 585 ft, yields 20 to 120 gpm, no dry holes, no lost circulation, and no fall in the water table across three decades. Corrected for our higher ground, expect 400 to 500 ft here.
Well bidIn progressOne quote in hand: $18,000 to $20,000 for a 500 ft well and pump, from Marty's Pump Service of Marionville, September 8, 2026, by text with no scope breakdown and no stated rate per foot past 500. Two more quotes are being gathered and will be published beside it. No well on the tract today.
Well sitingOpenNo well on the tract yet. Our site design puts it at the front of the tract, with the house in the middle and the drainfield at the back, so the two hold their separation. That front position is also the high point of the tract at 1,308 ft, which is what drives the depth estimate. The exact spot gets set on site by your driller against the soil scientist's report.
SurveyOpenNo survey exists, and none is required to close. Boundaries are mapped from county parcel data and corners are not staked. Tracts this size trade without one all the time here. If you want one, order it at your expense.
Second exitOpenA second drive loops out onto the adjoining drive and has been used that way. We have not confirmed it as a recorded easement in the title work, so we are not selling it as one. Treat the county road frontage as your access.
Water serviceVerifiedThere is no public water here. A well is required. No meter and no waterline marker anywhere on the tract or at the road, and no well on the property today. Treat a well as a cost of building, not an open question, and budget $20,000 for it.
Please read this

Everything above is what we found, published so you have somewhere to start rather than nowhere. It is not a substitute for your own due diligence, and you should not rely on it as one. Buyer is responsible for independently verifying acreage, boundaries, access, utilities, soil and septic feasibility, well feasibility, zoning, title and anything else that matters to your plans, before closing. Where we say "verified" we mean we checked it and are telling you what we were told, not that we warrant it.

Read this part twice

What you are also buying.

Every one of these came out of our own walkthrough. None of them killed the deal for us, but you should know them before you drive out.

It is thick

Heavy canopy with thorned vines and ivy, both the poisonous and the harmless kind. Walking is easy around the drives and campsite and fair-to-poor everywhere else; the east side is more passable than the west. Clearing beyond what is already open means equipment or a lot of Saturdays.

There is some trash

Minor scrap and litter around the campsite and the frontage, over and above the camper and gear that come off before the sale. Call it a day's work with a trailer.

The back quarter drops

The north end falls away to a low point at the northeast corner, bounded by a shallow rocky runoff creekbed. Average slope across the tract is about 7%, with pockets steeper than that.

No water, no septic, and the camper goes

There is no well and no septic system today. The camper, the refrigerator lying out by the campsite and the rest of the loose equipment all come off before the sale and do not convey. What you get is the hookup, the drive and the clearing.

Why $34,900

What small tracts around here actually sell for.

Every recorded vacant-land sale within about fifteen miles, three acres and under, over the last eighteen months. We opened all eleven listings and went through every photograph, because a price with no idea what was being sold is just a number. Sorted by what was actually on the ground.

SoldWhereAcresPrice$/acreDaysWhat the listing photos show
This tractCounty Road 2180, Mount Vernon2.5$34,900$13,960n/aPower to a meter and 30/50 amp hookup, two drives, cleared campsite, mature timber
Bare rural tracts: the closest thing to a like-for-like
Jul 2025Stonegate Subdivision, Ash Grove · 13 mi2.58$13,500$5,233990Platted subdivision with stone entrance pillars. The lot itself is brushy open ground.
Oct 2025Private Road 1195, Aurora · 14 mi1.00$14,900$14,900136Small wooded lot on a private road. Gravel drive, pond nearby.
May 2025Lawrence 2194, Freistatt Twp · 4 mi2.96$25,000$8,44620Wooded lot inside a named subdivision. No power or drive visible on the lot.
Sep 2025Lawrence 1224, Buck Prairie Twp · 10 mi2.16$29,900$13,84310Open mowed pasture with road frontage and houses nearby. No timber, no structures.
Feb 2026Lawrence 2105, Mount Vernon · 8 mi1.68$34,000$20,2384Open ground beside a pond. One map image only; we could not verify improvements.
Town or subdivision lots: serviced ground, different product
Apr 2026Elm Street, Pierce City · 10 mi1.43$34,900$24,40646In-town platted lots on a street grid. Plat drawing and parcel map only.
Mar 2026Ballpark Rd, Pierce City · 10 mi1.74$37,500$21,552195In-town, mowed, shade trees, paved street on two sides, power lines along the street.
Jul 2025Edina Ave, Purdy · 14 mi3.10$50,000$16,1298A large lot inside an established in-town neighbourhood, houses on every side.
Feb 2026Brandermill, Monett · 9 mi1.10$50,000$45,455225Subdivision lot with paved, curbed streets.
Already improved, or not residential at all
Oct 2025Lawrence 1112, Mount Vernon · 8 mi1.70$45,000$26,47129Septic already in the ground (tank lids in the gravel), plus an electric pedestal, gravel drive and an outbuilding.
Apr 2025Hayward Drive, Mount Vernon · 5 mi1.00$50,000$50,000108Commercial ground at the I-44 interchange. Highway frontage, concrete apron. A different market entirely.
The pattern, stated plainly

Every sale we could verify above $37,500 had something extra on it: town services, subdivision streets, a septic system already in the ground, or commercial highway frontage. Bare rural tracts in this radius traded between $13,500 and $34,000. We are priced below the line where everything else needed town water or an existing system to get there.

Against that bare-ground band, $34,900 is $900 above the highest of them, and per acre, $13,960 sits within about a hundred dollars of the $13,843 median those five tracts traded at. So you are paying roughly bare-ground money per acre, on a tract that already has electric run underground to a meter and a 30/50 amp hookup, two drives, and an open site. None of those five had any of it.

For what that work is worth to this market: the 1.7-acre place on Lawrence 1112, with a septic already in the ground and an electric pedestal, took $26,471 an acre, nearly double what bare pasture nearby brought. And cheap is not the same as sellable; the lowest-priced tract in that table sat 990 days.

One thing this table cannot show you, because it is true of every row in it: none of these tracts has a well either, and the well costs about the same on all of them. We have done that arithmetic against the closest bare comparable rather than leave you to do it.

Where it is

Halfway between Mount Vernon and Aurora, a little to the west.

  • Verona: about 5 miles
  • Mount Vernon: about 7 miles, county seat, I-44 interchange
  • Aurora: about 8 miles
  • Monett: about 9 miles
  • Springfield: about 35 miles
  • Joplin: about 40 miles
  • Table Rock Lake / Branson: about 40–45 miles south

Distances are approximate. School district is Verona R-VII.

The pin drops on the road frontage. If your phone would rather have numbers, the coordinates are 37.015659, -93.839710. Paste them straight into Maps or a GPS. There is no mailbox and no house number at the road, so navigate to the pin, not to an address.

Wider aerial showing the parcel on the southeast corner of a large continuous timber block, with farmland to the east and south.

The tract sits on the corner of a large unbroken block of timber, which is the reason there is wildlife moving through a two-and-a-half acre parcel.

Buyers

Want this one, or something like it?

Tick the box and I will call you about this tract. If it is close but not right, say what you are actually after instead: most of what I buy never reaches this page, and it goes to whoever already told me what they wanted.

Goes straight to me, not to a call centre. I answer my own phone: 980-350-9505.

Two ways to buy it

Cash, or 30% down and financing is arranged.

Pending. A buyer has signed for this tract and closing is set for November. If it falls through, it comes back at the same price. Leave your details to hear first, or about the next tract like it.
Cash
$34,900
Clean and quick
On terms
$12,000 down
30% down on a $40,000 financed purchase price. No bank and no income verification. Read the terms.

This is an off-market sale: no agent, no commission and no listing fee, which is part of why the number is what it is. On terms there is no bank application and no income verification, though we do run a credit check. Terms need a credit score above 650. Confirm that and the down payment on this page and we will go from there. The full terms are written out here. The financing is arranged through a private investor, and the note is assigned at closing, so your payments go to them rather than to us. You still buy the land at closing either way. Come walk it; bring a tape measure and a shovel if you like. If you are the sort of buyer who reads the whole due-diligence table before calling, you are the sort of buyer we would rather sell to.

980-350-9505

Noble Land Partners® LLC · Parcel 137025000000010001, Lawrence County, Missouri · 2.5 acres per the assessor · Legal: S1/4 E1/2 E1/2 SW SW, Sec 25 Twn 27 Rng 27.
Acreage, boundary lines and distances shown are taken from county parcel data and aerial imagery, not from a survey, and are approximate. Soil information on this page is not a certified soil evaluation report, a percolation test or a permit; a soil evaluation pit was dug on this parcel on September 2, 2026 by a registered soil scientist, and his signed written report is published on this page. A soil evaluation that supports a conventional system is not a construction permit, does not bind the county, and does not guarantee that any particular system will be permitted or will perform. Well data shown is third-party public record published by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for other properties, with ground elevations added from the USGS national elevation dataset; it describes wells drilled on neighbouring land, it is not a prediction about this tract, and depth, yield and cost on any particular well are only known once it is drilled. The well quote shown is a verbal indication from a third-party contractor, is not a bid we have accepted, does not run to any buyer, and does not include a rate for footage beyond the quoted depth. Nothing on this page is a guarantee that any onsite wastewater system, well or structure will be approved, or that water will be found at any particular depth, yield or cost. Comparable sales are recorded third-party data believed accurate but not warranted. Buyer is responsible for conducting their own due diligence and independently verifying every fact on this page before closing; no statement here is a representation or warranty, and nothing on this page should be relied upon in place of your own investigation, inspections and professional advice. Noble Land Partners® LLC sells land for its own account as a principal. We are the seller, not a broker or agent, we do not represent any buyer, and we hold or are acquiring the interest being conveyed. Owner-financed terms are subject to credit approval and to a written agreement, and the note is assigned to a third-party investor at closing; the figures shown are indicative, and nothing here is an offer of credit or a commitment to lend.

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