9988 Zion Lutheran Church Road

About This Property

This 155.3 +/- acre tract in Jefferson County, Missouri, sits along Highway A between Hillsboro and Festus. The property runs along Highway A on its southern edge and has frontage on Zion Lutheran Church Road along its northern border. It also reaches Sandy Valley Road at the southwest corner, where that road meets Highway A at an intersection. That gives the tract road frontage on two opposite sides and a third road at its corner. Homes are already in the area. A residential subdivision sits across Sandy Valley Road to the west, and houses are scattered through the surrounding countryside. For a developer, that puts a large block of ground beside existing homes and a paved highway. The north end of the tract is open. Several fields run across the northern part of the property, some worked as farm ground and some left in pasture, and mowed lanes connect them. A metal-roofed barn sits in the pasture. The open ground is the most workable part of the tract, with the fields lying across the north side and the barn sitting between them and the timber. Most of the south and center is timber, a mix of hardwoods and cedar. The timber borders the open fields and runs down to the highway, so the tract has both cleared ground and wooded ground along its road frontage. Anyone planning a layout will want to walk both and decide how each part fits the plan. Until plans come together, the property can be held and used as it is. The fields can stay in farm use or pasture, the barn gives a place to store equipment, and the timber is there to walk or to leave alone. The tract has road frontage on both its north and south sides, and the corner at Sandy Valley Road gives the property another point of access to consider alongside Highway A and Zion Lutheran Church Road. Walking the frontage is the quickest way to see where entrances could sit. This property may suit a developer or builder looking for acreage in Jefferson County, an investor who wants a large tract beside existing residential development, or a buyer who wants a block of land that can be farmed and held while they plan. Any change of use would be subject to the buyer’s own plans and local approvals.

Wooded river hills and exurban timber south of the city.

Jefferson County is classic wooded river-hill country, where the land folds into timbered ridges, hollows, and Mississippi bluff terrain south of the metro. This is exurban ground more than open farm country — heavily wooded tracts, hardwood timber, and hillside parcels that reward buyers looking for privacy, cover, and recreation within an easy drive of the city. The rolling, forested character suits whitetail and turkey hunting, timber holdings, and secluded homesites tucked into the hills. Creeks and drainages thread the hollows, and the Mississippi forms the county's eastern edge. For someone who wants genuine woods and topography without going deep into the Ozarks, Jefferson offers wooded recreational land with the metro still comfortably close at hand.

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