Herod, IL 92947 - Hardin County

Located in Herod, IL. 6 hrs. South of Chicago IL, 3hrs. Southeast of St. Louis MO, 3.5 hrs North of Nashville, TN. Surrounded by Shawnee National Forest. +/- 250 acres total, +/-77 acres tillable in 8 different fields, the remainder of the property consists of timber ridges, and creek bottoms. Private and secluded, picture perfect views from any location. Mature marketable timber. Primarily hardwoods, oak, hickory and poplar. Rock bottom creeks meandering through the property. Property has a variety of rolling terrain changes from creek bottoms to heavily wooded timber flats. Property is very easy to get around on. Gently rolling terrain. Equestrian riding trails throughout the entire property. Tillable fields are ideal locations for food plots, or pasture. Surrounded by Shawnee National Forest. Numerous stands sites, landowner currently has 4 shooting houses on the property. Electricity is present throughout the property. An abandoned house is located in the middle of the property. The old drive way, or lane still exist, electricity is ran back to that point. Would make a beautiful setting for a secluded home or cabin. As you can see from the photographs and the aerial lay out of this farm it is a rare find. The Mitchell farm has a perfect balance of timber vs s tillable acres. The tillable ground breaks up the timber nicely, with the creek bottoms tying everything together allowing the landowner an opportunity to develop this property into a class A trophy Whitetail and turkey farm. The area is well known for producing large numbers of deer and turkey. This farm has the potential to be one of the best trophy hunting farms in Southern, IL. Additional acreage can be purchased in close proximity of this farm. The farm can be sectioned into a smaller tracts.