Temple, TX 76501 (Bell County)
About this property
Welcome to Big Elm Creek Ranch! A vast opportunity just outside of the historical city of Temple off of Texas State Highway 53 presents 67.87 acres that is unrestricted and open for your next farm plan or envisioned home. Big Elm Creek is fully fenced with wide open space for your next rural investment. Big Elm Creek Ranch offers an oak-surrounded family compound! With a featured pond right in your front yard ready to extend a cattle operation on vast pastures including a well for your own water access giving you many opportunities land offers with low costs for ownership and a sub-10 minute commute to Temple Texas. This ranch has a 3 bed 3 bath home ready to remodel with your vision. The land is visible and vast neighboring the Elm Creek. Enriched with mature oaks and pecan trees, the property is currently under a cattle lease keeping your pastures open and free with endless buildable potential, and has an incomplete 20x30 steel building ready to be finished as a storage space or workshop. Whether it's hunting, building, or accumulating an investment to build for future wealth, Big Elm Creek offers the space and amenities to create a compound to thrive combining location and space ready to entertain your creation.
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About the Area
9562 State Highway 53 None is located in Temple, Texas, in Bell County. Bell County anchors the northern gateway to the Hill Country region, centered on Killeen-Temple-Belton, a diverse metro area shaped by Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood), the largest active-duty military installation in the United States. The county blends military community character with a growing healthcare and university sector.
Stillhouse Hollow Lake and Belton Lake on the Leon River provide significant water recreation within Bell County. The terrain transitions from the limestone Hill Country in the west to the blackland prairie in the east. The Lampasas River flows through the western reaches of the county.
Temple had an estimated population of 86,358 as of 2023. The 76501 zip code has a median household income of $50,764, a median home value of $151,000, and a median age of 35.4. The average household size is 2.65 people.
Fort Cavazos is the dominant economic driver in Bell County, supporting tens of thousands of military personnel and civilian contractors. Baylor Scott and White Health, one of the largest healthcare systems in Texas, anchors the Temple medical district. Texas A&M Central Texas serves a significant higher education population.
Demographic data sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2023).
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