5246 County Road 280

About This Property

Whether your ideal lifestyle is filled with outdoor adventure or the comforts of familiar farm life, this exceptional property is ready to welcome you home! Built in 2019, this custom 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath home sits on approximately 5 acres and offers an impressive blend of recreation, relaxation and low-maintenance living. Ideally located near Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and Duck Creek Conservation Area, the property has an additional 20+/- acres that features privately managed wetland habitat designed for waterfowl hunting. Complete with an irrigation system! The water control structure built into the levee system, making controlling the water levels easy. Inside, you’ll find custom cabinetry, granite countertops, geothermal heating and cooling, a mudroom, sunroom and a reinforced safe room with a built-in gun safe. The lower level provides additional living space and includes a convenient kitchenette—3 large bedrooms perfect for guests, extended family or entertaining. Outside, enjoy the composite deck, durable Hardie Board siding and a massive 3,000+ square-foot shop that offers far more than equipment storage. The building currently accommodates a half-court gym where the kids can gather, a dedicated weight-room area and plenty of remaining space for farm equipment, ATVs, hunting gear, recreational vehicles and more. This is more than a custom home—it’s a place to live, gather, hunt, work and enjoy the outdoors, all from one extraordinary property.

Crowley's Ridge splits rich cropland from timbered river bottoms.

Stoddard County is one of the Bootheel's more varied tracts, where the sandy spine of Crowley's Ridge divides deep alluvial farmland from timbered upland. West of the ridge lies classic delta cropland — soybeans, corn, rice, and cotton laid out among drainage ditches — while the ridge itself and the Castor River bottoms carry hardwood timber and thick cover. That contrast is the county's draw. Farm buyers find genuinely productive ground, and hunters find whitetail, turkey, and strong waterfowl action where flooded fields meet river sloughs. The wooded lowland habitat here is a step above the wide-open row-crop counties to the south. For a buyer who wants tillable acres and real hunting ground together, Stoddard rewards a close look.

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