I'm on Crowley's too. Right on top, half a mile from the bottom ground on the east side of it. We have twenty acres of woods that's actually on the east slope of the ridge. Plenty of deer around, some turkeys too. Bottom ground W and NW of me 10-15 miles is the old river channel I'm told. MS River ran over that way a few years ago and left some beautiful bottom ground hardwoods.
Ground around me is selling in the range from 2500-4500/acre for hill ground. The farmable, and sure enough bottom farm ground is quite a bit higher, up to 10k I hear not long ago.
Clay hill ground, in fact there is a kitty litter/floor dry plant within a few miles of me, no rocks hardly to speak of. I think I could take you to an outcropping but it would be a good hike and over on the neighbor. We do have gravel in the creeks.
Ag is king in this area, and banking it seems. Bank on every corner in town. I don't know when that began, but they are here now. A town close by just had a sonic close I suppose to a lack of business, and the town has at least two banks I can recall.
Mostly small cattlemen, and large row croppers in my county. There is an outlier owner of cattle here with over 1,000 momma's but I hear tell he's letting his nephews run his tax write-off, and they are doing a fine job of it.
Little towns are long dried up mostly. Every once in a while someone will try to open a little café or something, hobby shop, "antiques", etc
I like it here, raised here, my people are here. The thought of living in Denver area appealed to me after living there while in the Army a couple of years, buy the pull of family here brought me back home.
