Partially serviced land with cleared road frontage; site-work scope priced before final utility runs. Mapped soil: Sloan silt loam, Columbus Lowland, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded, very poorly drained (USDA SSURGO). A mapped body of open water covers 9% of the lot, leaving 5.45 of 5.97 acres dry — the building envelope is smaller than the acreage suggests. Septic likely required (utilities estimated from land use; verified in the feasibility study).
Boundary verified against Franklin County Auditor — Jul 23, 2026
Boundary IoU vs county fabric 1.000 (pass >= 0.98). Geometric 5.97 ac vs county-stated 5.97 ac (delta 0.0%).
For-sale status: Unverified — availability confirmed on inquiry. Only a conversation with the owner advances this — software never does.
Estimated land value — a size and metro estimate, not an asking price. Set with the seller.
How this listing works
This is a real parcel we identified from public county records — not an active MLS listing. Before you commit to anything, we confirm availability and terms directly with the owner. Tell us which parcel interests you and we take it from there.
The record behind it is parcel 160-003152 at the Franklin County Auditor — check it yourself before you take our word for any of this.
01 — The land
Satellite imagery with the recorded boundary drawn to scale. Boundary and dimensions come from county GIS — the survey confirms them before contract.
Water on this parcel
A mapped body of open water covers 9% of this parcel — about 0.52 of its 5.97 acres, leaving 5.45 acres of dry ground. That is buildable, but the envelope is smaller than the acreage suggests: the shoreline is not pad. Keeping the 50 ft Ohio requires between a leach field and surface water, the largest square that could carry a home here is 253 ft on a side. The feasibility study measures the usable envelope on the ground.
Largest square of building envelope, clear of the water: 253 ft a side.
What each source said
| Source | Open water measured | Wetland mapped |
|---|---|---|
| USGS/USDA NAIP aerial imagery | none mapped | does not classify wetland |
| Esri World Imagery | none mapped | does not classify wetland |
| OpenStreetMap | 9% of the lot | none mapped |
| USGS National Hydrography Dataset | none mapped | none mapped |
| USFWS National Wetlands Inventory | none mapped | none mapped |
| USDA NRCS SSURGO | none mapped (0 of 74 samples) | does not classify wetland |
The near-infrared classifier — the one source that measures the ground rather than recording what somebody mapped — found no open water inside this boundary. This finding rests on OpenStreetMap, so how wide the water is drawn is a mapped line we cannot check against the imagery: read it as a judgement call, settled on the ground by the feasibility study. Re-run the measurement and this page follows it.
Mapped by OpenStreetMap — Water polygons © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
02 — Feasibility report
This parcel sits outside the mapped floodplain, but it needs a conventional septic system — the biggest drag on its score. Partially developed: a medium-confidence estimate until utility runs are verified — pricing locks at contract.
Medium confidence
Partially developed — estimate firms up once utility runs are verified.
| Factor | Finding | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Flood zone — Clear | FEMA zone X — outside the mapped floodplain. | 25/25 |
| Slope — Clear | 0.5% average slope — flat enough for a standard foundation. | 15/15 |
| Water — Clear | Municipal water at the lot line. | 7/7 |
| Sewer — Caution | Septic system required — soils here typically perc well. | 3/9 |
| Electric — Clear | Power at the street. | 8/8 |
| Road access — Clear | Paved public road frontage. | 12/12 |
| Soil — Clear | Loam soils — good bearing and drainage. | 12/12 |
| Tree cover — Caution | Scattered trees — selective clearing around a natural building site. | 4/6 |
| Development status — Caution | Partially developed — access is in and the remaining site-work scope is knowable. | 7/12 |
| HOA — Clear | No HOA — no design review beyond building code. | 2/2 |
| Zoning fit — Clear | 260,053 sq ft — no minimum lot size on record; confirmed against the district in the feasibility study. | 12/12 |
| Open water — Caution | A mapped body of open water covers 9% of the parcel, leaving 5.45 of 5.97 acres dry. Buildable, but the envelope is smaller than the acreage — a leach field stays 50 ft off surface water. | 0/4 |
Pad prep & utility hookups
Every build: foundation pad, meter sets, on-lot trenching, and final connections from the lot line.
Septic system
No municipal sewer — soils here typically perc well enough for a conventional field.
Selective clearing
We price clearing for the building envelope only — up to one acre of the parcel's 5.97 — not the whole property.
Grading & drainage
0.5% average slope — near-flat pad work.
Driveway & access
Standard drive from paved frontage.
Site-work total, beyond land price
$46K – $89KEstimate — locks at contract after the site-specific review.
Assumes partially developed in Columbus, where permits run 3–8 weeks. Permitting overlaps site work on this land state, so it adds no extra calendar time. The split shown is the long end of the range.
03 — Utilities & records
Utilities below are estimated from the county land-use record, not a utility account. We verify every service at the line during the feasibility study before any commitment.
Municipal, at street
Septic required
At street
At street
Not available
Paved
Not on record
Zoning district is confirmed against the municipality in the feasibility study.
Residential, Vacant Land, Lot
Land-use classification of record from the county auditor.
FEMA zone X
Outside the FEMA-mapped floodplain. No flood insurance requirement, no elevation engineering.
Sloan silt loam, Columbus Lowland, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
Very poorly drained. Good bearing and drainage — the soil we hope for.
0.5% slope
Representative slope across the buildable area (USDA SSURGO).
721 ft
Ground elevation at the parcel centroid (USGS 3DEP).
Scattered
South Western CSD
None
04 — Source & acquisition
No listing, no broker, no asking price — this is a parcel of record we found in public county data. Here is the office that holds it, the number it is filed under, and the real path from interested to deeded.
Where this came from
Boundary verified — Jul 23, 2026
Where it is listed
This parcel is not listed anywhere. It is not on the MLS, not on Zillow, LandWatch, or Realtor, and it carries no asking price. It came out of the Franklin County Auditor's public parcel GIS on Jul 21, 2026 — the same records anyone can query — and was kept because it is real, buildable-looking ground with a clean chain of provenance. We do not scrape listing sites: their terms forbid it, the data is licensed rather than public, and a crawler breaks on the next redesign. Real for-sale inventory arrives through a licensed feed or not at all.
Active inventory source — Public county records
Candidate homesites identified from public county assessor GIS, enriched with FEMA/USDA/USGS public data. Availability confirmed on inquiry.
Who is selling it
No one is selling this parcel — there is no seller, no broker, and no agent behind it. The owner of record is whoever the recorded deed at the county names, and we do not publish that name or any contact details: owner names and mailing addresses are dropped at ingestion and never stored, by design. The Franklin County Auditor record above shows exactly what the county chooses to publish about this parcel, and the recorder's office holds the deed itself — both are open to you on the same terms they are open to us. If you want to move on it, we write to the owner of record on your behalf, and they may well say no.
How you would acquire it
Identified — no inquiry sent yet
We have verified the land record and nothing more. No one has contacted the owner about this parcel, so whether it can be bought at all is genuinely unknown. Tell us it interests you and step 2 starts.
This status only moves when a person records the outcome of a real conversation with the owner. No software here advances it.
Identify the parcel of record
We pull the boundary and assessor attributes straight from the county's public GIS, then machine-check the polygon against the county's own fabric before it ships. That is what is already done here.
We do it
Pull the deed and the owner of record at the county
The recorded deed at the county recorder names the current owner and shows the easements, restrictions, and legal description that bind the land. It is public — anyone can read it, including you.
County record
We send a letter of interest to the owner of record
Unlisted land is approached, not bought off a shelf. We write to the owner at the address the deed record gives, say who is interested and why, and ask whether they would consider selling.
We do it
The owner responds — or does not
This is the step that can end it. Plenty of owners never reply, and plenty say no; both are normal and neither is a failure. Only an owner saying yes moves this parcel forward, and only a human records that.
We do it
Price and terms get negotiated
There is no asking price to accept, so one is agreed. Our estimated land value and the county's last recorded sale are inputs to that conversation, not the outcome of it.
You
Purchase agreement with real contingencies
You sign subject to feasibility, soil and perc results, and clean title — so if the ground or the record does not support the house you want, you walk with your deposit.
You
Title search and boundary survey
A licensed title company searches the chain of title and a licensed surveyor stakes the corners. This is where the recorded property line becomes a staked property line.
Title company
Close through a licensed title company
Funds and the deed move through escrow at a licensed title company of your choosing, with title insurance issued at closing. The deed is recorded in your name at the county.
Title company
Build contract
With the land yours and the feasibility study in hand, the build contract locks scope and price. Nothing before this point commits you to building with us.
We do it
05 — On the ground
Scores and ranges on this page come from public records and our field data. Each item above is re-verified on the ground before your purchase agreement is signed.
06 — Sun on this land
Computed solar geometry for this exact latitude and longitude — sunrise and sunset azimuths through the year, so you can orient living spaces before a single wall is drawn.
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Next step
Pick a plan, configure it, and watch the estimate move — this parcel's site-work range is carried into the price from the first click.