9562 State Highway 53, Temple, TX 76501

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.

67.887 acres is the defining advantage at 9562 State Highway 53, a Bell County farm property that combines scale, highway access, and an existing residence in a way that is increasingly hard to find near Temple. For buyers who value land first and improvements second, this is a tract with real operating flexibility: fully fenced, unrestricted, and already set up with open pasture, a pond, a water well, and an active cattle lease that helps keep the ground maintained.

The house adds immediate utility without changing the core value proposition. Built in 1986, the single family residence offers 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, and 2,645 square feet, with a pricing benchmark of $1.35M, or $510 per square foot. Two fireplaces and a 2-car garage give the home a solid base, and the current layout creates a clear path for a buyer who wants to remodel rather than start from scratch. That matters on acreage of this size, where existing residential infrastructure can shorten the timeline between acquisition and use.

The land itself is what will hold most buyers' attention. The setting includes mature oaks and pecan trees, broad pasture, and visibility toward Elm Creek, which gives the ranch a stronger natural frame than raw open acreage alone. There is also an incomplete 20x30 steel building that can be finished for storage, equipment, or workshop use. Those details matter because they widen the range of viable outcomes, whether the next owner is focused on agricultural use, a long-term homestead plan, or a family compound with room to expand over time.

School alignment is another practical point. The property is in Rogers ISD, with Rogers Elementary, Rogers Middle, and Rogers High School assigned. For buyers balancing land acquisition with a defined school path, that clarity removes one of the common uncertainties that comes with rural property searches.

At 40 days on market, this listing sits in a category where the acreage, unrestricted status, and existing home give it more than one exit strategy. It can function as a working rural holding now, support a targeted renovation, or serve as a controlled land position near Temple with long-term value tied to scale, access, and optionality.