#1 • Lowder Ranch

Part of Lowder Ranch (timed auction by Vaughn-Roth Land Brokers)

Starting at $2,000.00

Status: Available

Live bidding starts Nov 9, 2026 6:00 PM CST

Vaughn-Roth Land Brokers is honored to represent the Lowder Family with the sale of the historic Lowder Ranch Headquarter Section via hybrid auction (both in-person and online bidding: November 5th-9th). This beautiful Flint Hills pasture tract, with historic limestone rock home, is located in northern Lyon County, totals 638-acres, and is composed of quality native and cool season grasses that provide exceptional utility to both the cow-calf and grow/starter/yearling operator. Featuring a nice combination of productive native and cool season grasses, minimal tree/brush pressure, four ponds, a wet-weather draw along Dow Creek, 85’ of topography change, historic limestone home, shop, pipe pens, rural water, and paved road access this property is one you don’t want to miss. Full sections with paved road access and utilities set up to accommodate a true headquarter site rarely come available so don’t miss out on this exceptional opportunity! This exceptional parcel is located south of Allen and has good, paved road access along its eastern border, along with gravel road access along both its southern and western borders. The property has a beautiful gentle roll to it with good views of the surrounding Flint Hills in all directions. The parcel includes a wonderful combination of productive native and cool season grasses providing for an extended grazing season, ideal for a cow-calf producer or for starting cattle. A majority of the property is composed of a good stand of native warm season grasses with additional acreage along Dow Creek, and in the SE portion of the property, being composed of cool season Brome and Fescue grasses on productive underlying soils. Aerial spraying has been completed in the past 2-3 years in order to properly manage the grass acreage on the parcel. The property generally features average to good fencing (small section of below average fencing in the eastern half of the northern property fence) with a roughly 95-acre cross-fenced pasture in the SE portion of the tract and a roughly 13-acre horse pasture near the home site on the property. Water availability on the parcel is good with four individual ponds, a wet-weather draw along Dow Creek, and rural-water all available for watering livestock. A Quonset shed with full concrete floor and spray foam insulation is located SW of the home on the property for storage with an attached lean-to with pipe pens for horses or cattle. A nice large set of new pipe shipping and sorting pens is located along the southern end of the property along Rd 310 with great access. The home on the property is located along paved Rd L on the eastern border of the property and is a limestone rock home built in the late 1800’s. The home is nearly 1700sf in size with three bedrooms and recently had a new roof and new windows installed. If you have been looking for a true headquarter site to call home in the Kansas Flint Hills this one should be moved to the top of your list. Having the ability to have your headquarter site located on a full section of land with paved road access, a wonderful combination of productive cool season and native grasses in place, a nice limestone home, and rural water access doesn’t come along often so come prepared to bid! Whether you are a cattle producer looking to add a top shelf grazing unit to your operation, are an investor looking for a desirable property that is highly rentable, or are solely an individual looking for a beautiful Flint Hills property to sneak away to you aren’t going to want to miss your opportunity to purchase this quality tract. Please give Henry Ott (620-437-7340) a call today to set up your property tour! ***We will additionally be auctioning a large 3000 +/- head backgrounding facility with additional adjoining acreage and a separate 234-acre pasture all within 5-miles of this property later this fall for those looking to put this tract together with additional acreage to form a large 1300+ acre operation. Possession: Full possession at closing. Earnest Money: $150,000 Closing: On or before December 9th, 2026. Auction Information: This property is selling via a hybrid auction with both in-person and online bidding available. The live auction will be held at Champions Landing at 1801 Rural Street in Emporia on November 9th and will start at 6:00 P.M. Online bidding will begin on November 5th at Noon. 2025 Real Estate Taxes: $4156.78 Brief Legal Description: All of Section, less small tract in the N2 N2 NE4, of Section 34-16S-11E of the 6th PM; Lyon County, KS (638 +/- Acres) Driving Directions from Allen: Head south on Rd L for 2-miles to Rd 320 and property will start on the west side of the road. Property Address: 3145 Rd L; Allen, KS 66833 Minerals Interest: 100% of the Seller owned mineral interest will transfer to the buyer at closing. It is believed that the Seller owns 40% of the mineral interest in the property. There is no active production on the property. Disclosure: As with a vast majority of Flint Hills pastures, there is a presence of Sericea Lespedeza on the property. Improvements on the property sell in as-is, where-is condition with no warrantees or guarantees from the seller. Two storage units are located near the home on the property. These are personal property and do not sell with the property. An easement is being drawn up to allow the owner of the pasture to the south of this property access to use the pipe pens in the southern end of this property for shipping cattle from their pasture as long as they own the pasture.