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Turnkey Deer And Pheasant Hunting With Income On Skunk River
Acreage
224 ±
County
Henry
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Address Dakota Avenue, Lot#WP001 Mount Pleasant, IA 52641
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This vast property along southeast Iowa’s Skunk River has gated/dead-end road access, thick bottomland habitat, a nice winding creek, and upland hardwoods. It’s home to trophy bucks, pheasant, quail, turkey, and waterfowl. It generates over $28,000 annually from CRP and the grain bin. We were blown away by its amount of diversity, character, edge, and cover.
As we look back on our past client’s success, some of the best hunting and largest deer have come from this type of bottomland habitat; the Skunk is notorious for growing giants. Much of this land is on a “second bench,” a slight elevation increase from the primary floodplain level. In these areas, there is an excellent stand of native grasses, forbs, and wildflowers growing as part of the Conservation Reserve Program.
Two experienced bowhunters have developed the food plot, trail network, scrape sites, and blind locations to maximize mature buck usage and encounters during the fall. Trail camera history shows a high amount of mature trophy bucks here! The tower blinds are heavy duty, several standing on 15-foot anchored steel, and they are heated for maximum comfort during the nasty weather that provides the best hunting opportunities. I flushed pheasants and quail while we photographed the listing, and the owners have confirmed it holds a healthy population of upland game birds.
This property scores high for a potential wetland conservation easement option if the future owners desire to pursue this decision. Conservation easements are common along midwest rivers, and typically they offer a one-time payment in exchange for setting aside sensitive acres for permanent wetland and wildlife habitats. The grain bin area outside the floodplain would make a fantastic building site.
If you want to own an exceptional hunting property that feels huge, helps pay for itself, and has a combination of tremendous deer and bird hunting, you’ve probably waited a long time for this opportunity. Please call the listing agents to schedule a showing with advanced notice.
Details
- Acres m/l: (159 CRP, 17 upland timber, 48 bottomland timber)
- Location: along Dakota Avenue, north of the Skunk River, south of Trenton, Iowa
- CRP: 159.78 total acres in two separate contracts pays $26,038/year
- CRP Contract 1: 29.18 acres pays $257.41/acre or $7,512/year through 2025
- CRP Contract 2: 130.6 acres pays $141.85/acre or $18,526/year through 2025
- Timber: approximately 17 acres of upland hardwoods across 208th Street on the NW corner
- Cash Rent Income: $2,500/year from the grain bin rental
- Total Income: approximately $28,538/year
- Improvements: grain bin, two old barns
- Infrastructure: gated entrance to a dead-end road, established trails, dike
- River bottom habitat includes native warm season grasses, forbs, flowers, trees, sloughs, willow thickets, and mature timber
- Strong population of pheasant and quail
- Documented history of many mature, trophy bucks (see trail camera images)
- Four food plots designed for close archery encounters
- Two of the plots have electric fencing to prevent deer pressure on an important late season source
- Very secluded, in the center of a travel corridor along the Skunk River
- Gorgeous views of the river, with prime fishing locations as well
- 7 miles to Lockridge, Iowa
- 8 miles to Mount Pleasant, Iowa
- 18 miles to Fairfield, Iowa
- 57 miles to Iowa City, Iowa
- Electricity is available at the grain bin, which would make a great building site
- Taxes in 2021 were $4,452
Summary
Land Type
Hunting and Recreational
Land Details
Timber, Enrolled in Government Program, Grass, Open
Outbuildings
Barn
Road Surface
Gravel
Property Type
Farms, Recreational Land, Timberland, Hunting Land
Road Frontage
County Road
Improvements/Features
Small Game, Big Game, Upland Game, Predators, Waterfowl, Fish, Creek/Spring, Wetlands, Slough, Food Plot, Tree Stands/Blinds, Trail Network, Internal Road System, Gated Entrance, Grain Storage, Seller's Mineral Rights Convey
Land and Farm Property Types
Agriculture - Farm, Land - Hunting, Land - Recreational, Timberland - Natural
Other Property Details
Additional Addresses
- Dakota Avenue, Lot#WP001, Mount Pleasant, IA, 52641
- Dakota Avenue, Lot#WP001, Mount Pleasant, IA, 52641
Utilities
- electric: onsite
- water: nearby
Coordinates
41.0095, -91.6574
Annual Taxes
$4,452
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