Land for Sale in Maydelle, Texas

Diamond M Ranch awaits the family investor seeking to hunt and play in central east Texas's beautiful spring-fed timbered hills. Conveniently located two hours southeast of Dallas and two hours north of Houston, the ranch is an exclusively beautiful, wooded getaway. It is game-fenced and well-managed, producing trophy-caliber experiences. With over 300 feet of irregular elevation change in the rolling timbered hills, Diamond M Ranch leaves one with the never-ending desire to explore more of its 642+- acres.

Three main water courses include two spring-fed creeks that wind and fall through their hillside courses and One Arm Creek, which makes up much of the western boundary. The hand-crafted two-bedroom, one-bathroom cedar bunkhouse serves as headquarters, along with a newly constructed 40'x60' five-bay shop building. Combined, they offer everything a family needs to get started enjoying the ranch.

A hilltop outcropping, regionally known as Mount Hope, provides an elevation of 650 feet along an escarpment for a potential homesite offering a panoramic view above the Neches River Valley. The ranch is accessed by endless trails and roads winding through the creek valleys, bottoms, and hilltops. Five interior fields are currently equipped with blinds and feeders, with additional feeding stations around the ranch.

The ranch has been managed with prescribed burns and will continue to benefit from aggressive management, whether timber or understory development. Hardwoods include various oak, pecan, hickory, holly, elm, birch, and sycamore. Loblolly pines are in a small amount of managed plantations and native shortleaf and loblolly are also in natural uneven-aged management. A modest pine timber harvest was utilized in 2023 to benefit the future development of the ranch's ecology.

Maydelle, Texas, is located between Palestine and Rusk, on US Highway 84, and in the heart of western Cherokee County. The ranch is located just a few miles south of town on a paved county road. One of the most famous local attractions is the Texas State Railroad, where "vintage steam and diesel locomotives take passengers across the celebrated rails of the Piney Woods Route between the quaint East Texas towns of Palestine and Rusk on a 50-mile roundtrip adventure." There are other state parks and numerous sites and towns nearby as well to explore within a short drive from the ranch.

The Facts:

~ 642.6+ deeded acres

~ 530+ game-fenced acres

~ Elevations climb from 310 to 650 feet

~ Includes significant inventory of heavy equipment and farm and ranch accessories

~ Hand-crafted two-bedroom, one-bathroom cedar cabin

~ Five bay 40'x60' shop building

~ Rural water and 450-foot water well

~ Fiber internet has recently become available in the area