Your own stand of Tennessee pine.
19.74 acres between Nashville and Jackson, five miles off I‑40 — with the gravel drive, the pad and the building already in. No zoning, no building code, a creek down the middle, and forty‑eight thousand acres of state park and forest twenty minutes up the road.
One piece of land. Take your pick.
Nineteen acres is the sweet spot — big enough to disappear into, small enough to know every corner of by the end of a season. What you do with it is the only open question.
Off-grid homestead
No zoning and no building code, a 208-day growing season, 57 inches of rain and sun enough to run a house. Tennessee even lets you put in your own septic.
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Hunting & fishing
Deer Unit 1, the best turkey numbers in Tennessee, a creek corridor through your own timber, and Kentucky Lake eight miles down the road.
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Weekend retreat
Pull the camper straight onto the pad this weekend. Nashville is ninety minutes, and there is a lock-up building waiting for your gear.
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Most cheap acreage is a line on a map and a logging track. Getting from that to somewhere you can park, sleep and keep tools takes a season and a gravel bill. Here it is finished.
A drive that takes a truck
A long gravel driveway runs from the county road back through the pines — crowned, built up and wide enough to turn a full-size pickup. No mud season, no winching, no reversing a quarter mile.
A pad, level and ready
Thirty by fifty feet of level gravel at the end of the drive. Park a fifth-wheel with the truck beside it, swing a trailer, or start building on it tomorrow.
Somewhere to lock things up
A 12×24 wood building in as-new condition — double doors, two windows, a full loft shelf. Tools, fuel and bedding stay dry from the very first weekend.
Big water one way, big woods the other.
This corner of West Tennessee is quietly one of the best-served outdoor addresses in the state — and almost nobody has noticed.
A county that lets you get on with it.
Decatur County has no countywide zoning, and it is a state building-code opt-out jurisdiction — so outside the three small city limits, no building permit is required for a dwelling. There is no planning office to argue with, because there isn’t one.
Tennessee charges no state income tax at all. Property tax on this parcel ran $329 for the year, and at over fifteen acres of forest it qualifies for the state’s Greenbelt programme, which taxes land on its use rather than its market value.
Walk it, and you will know.
An hour on the ground tells you more than any photograph. The gate is gravel and the drive takes a truck, so come in whatever you drive.