Improvements: The quaint 5-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom home sits in a spectacular setting beneath towering oak and elm trees, thoughtfully placed to overlook the Buckners Creek bottom for truly breathtaking views. Built in the early 1970s and featured in Architectural Digest soon after, the home showcases an open-concept living and dining area with floor-to-ceiling windows that frame uninterrupted vistas of the surrounding landscape. A pool and covered pavilion offer a welcome retreat during warmer months, and a three-vehicle carport provides ample parking. At the ranch headquarters, youll find an office, horse barn, cattle-working pens, a hay barn, and multiple additional barns and storage buildings. The property features a low-fence perimeter and extensive cross-fencing designed for efficient cattle rotation. Numerous prime building sites are available should a new owner wish to add improvements tailored to their needs.

Water: This ranch offers exceptional surface and subsurface water. Live Oak Creek and Chandler Branch Creek converge into Buckners Creek on the property, with each holding water year-round and flowing consistently during periods of normal rainfall. Blue Lake, the largest body of water on the ranch, spans approximately 6 acres when full and includes two islands. A water well believed to produce roughly 120 GPM previously supplemented Blue Lake to maintain a constant level. In addition to two other ponds, the ranch has a total of four water wells, with both the Blue Lake well and the house well each yielding over 120 GPM. Water troughs are scattered throughout, ensuring at least one dependable source of water in every pasture. There is also municipal water to the house, available line along FM 154 with two meters in place.

Vegetation/Terrain: The property offers a balanced mix of open pastureland dotted with century-old oaks and thicker wooded areas along the creek bottoms and drainages. Historically operated as a cattle ranch, the open pastures have allowed some brush to return, creating additional cover for wildlife. The creek bottoms are lined with towering Live Oak, Post Oak, Cedar Elm, and occasional Pecan and Cottonwood trees. Rolling terrain with nearly 100 feet of elevation change provides beautiful views across the ranch, including one of the best vantage points from the back porch of the home.

Wildlife: The ranch is teeming with wildlife, including a robust population of whitetail deer, Rio Grande turkeys, dove, wild hogs, and varmints. Blue Lake and the Buckners Creek bottom attract abundant migrating waterfowl in the fall and winter months. Fishing opportunities for bass, catfish, and perch are available both in Blue Lake and in the creek.

Minerals: Negotiable. Contact broker for details.

Taxes: Agricultural Exempt.

HISTORY:

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Bar Nothing Ranch played a significant role in the growth of the Beefmaster cattle breedfamously endorsed by baseball legend and Texas rancher Nolan Ryan. Large sales of this now-iconic breed were held on the property, drawing cattle buyers from across the country. The ranch surrounds the small town of Muldoon, a community with a rich and colorful past. The town was named for Father Michael Muldoon, a clergyman who briefly served Stephen F. Austins first colonists. In 1834, Muldoon traveled to Mexico to visit Austin during his imprisonment and, after voicing pro-Texan sympathies, was briefly jailed himself. He later returned to Texas following the revolution and reappeared in 1842, when he received a letter of appreciation from President Anson Jones. In the early 1900s, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroadrunning along what would later become FM 154brought substantial passenger traffic to Muldoon. The railroad served as a major driver of the towns economy, but as ridership dwindled and diesel locomotives eliminated the need for frequent water stops, Muldoons prominence faded. The old train station was abandoned in the 1950s with the discontinuation of the Dinky, a small passenger train once running between Flatonia and Muldoon. Muldoon once supported a thriving business community, including several stores, a saloon, a blacksmith shop, a hotel, and a rock quarry whose stone was used in constructing the Galveston jetties. Although none of these businesses remain, several historic structures still stand, including the Kerr Storebuilt in 1890 and abandoned in the mid-1900salong with another former store, the old blacksmith shop, and other notable buildings along FM 154.