$190,000

This is 38 acres of white oak woods in Meigs County, Ohio, with a creek running through the ground and gravel frontage on two roads, Bentz Road and Horse Cave Road. Electric and city water are already at the road, so the two lines a builder usually waits on are waiting on you. The seller describes a large, beautiful flat right as you pull in, the natural building site, with large white oak timber around it so the home site stays secluded. A second flat sits back by the creek, the kind of spot a hunter marks on the first walk. The seller reports great deer sign, and there are no stands or food plots on the ground yet, so it is a blank slate to lay out your own way. You choose which road the drive comes off, and you clear only what the house and the drive need. Mineral rights are recorded as included and convey to the buyer. Racine, the nearest village, is about seven road miles south on the Ohio River, with its own branch of the county library, and Eastern Local Schools serve it. Pomeroy, the county seat, is about nine road miles west on the river. Athens and Ohio University are about 29 road miles northwest, with O'Bleness Memorial Hospital there, and Holzer runs a 24-hour emergency department in the county. The state is widening US 33 through Athens and Meigs counties to four lanes, with work running into 2028. For the hunter, Shade River State Forest sits about seven miles northeast as the crow flies, next to Forked Run State Park, and both are open to hunting in season with a license. The AEP Gavin public hunting lands add 6,885 more acres in the county, permit required. An AEP 345 kV transmission line crosses the land north to south.