BeyondCreektree

What this covers

Land for sale within a four-hour drive of Santa Fe, at 5 acres or more and under $1,000,000, from the public listings of LandHub and United Country Real Estate. Acreage, price and location are read straight from each listing — nothing is estimated. Every card says which site it came from, and View goes to that site's own page.

A parcel listed on both sites appears once. Those are matched on position and size — same coordinates, same acreage — because the two sites rewrite each other's titles. Where the same pin carries genuinely different tracts, they stay separate.

Drive times are real routing, measured over the road network from the centre of Santa Fe — not a circle on a map. An hour out of a mountain city is a very different distance up a canyon than out across open country, and a radius gets both wrong.

Click View on any card for the full listing: photos, maps, contact details and current price.

What was left out

• Parcels under 5 acres, and anything priced at or above $1M.
• Listings with no published price. LandHub uses $0 for "call for price" and a token $1 for auction lots. Neither can be shown to be under a million, so showing them as free would be wrong.
• Parcels whose listing gives no usable coordinates — they cannot be placed on a drive time at all.
• United Country listings whose acreage is not written down. That site publishes no acreage field, so it is read from the listing's own words; where it cannot be read, the parcel is left out rather than guessed at.
• This is two marketplaces, not the whole market. Zillow, Realtor.com, LandWatch, Land.com, LandAndFarm and LandSearch all block automated access, so parcels listed only there are missing.

About the utility labels

• These are read from the seller's own listing — its structured feature tags where it has them, otherwise its description text. They are a search aid, not a survey.
• United Country cards carry no utility labels at all. That reading is not available for them yet, so their labels are blank for want of data rather than because the listing said no. The same rule applies: a blank is never a "no".
• A blank is not a "no." Most listings simply do not mention utilities, and treating silence as absence would be as wrong as treating it as presence. Only an explicit statement sets a label.
• Where a listing says both — "no utilities on the property, but electric at the road" — the negative wins. That errs toward checking rather than assuming.
• Verify before you buy. "Power" here can mean a line at the road rather than a meter on the parcel, and the cost of the difference is measured in tens of thousands of dollars.

About the airport figure

• Straight-line miles to the nearest public-use airport — how far the field is, not how long the drive. The drive figure on each card is real road routing to Santa Fe; the two are different measures and are labelled separately.
• "Public airport" is the FAA's own definition: public use, operational, an airport rather than a heliport or seaplane base. Private strips are excluded, and airports in neighbouring states are included so a parcel near a state line is not given the wrong one.
• IAP marks a field with a published instrument approach.
• Parcels with no usable coordinates carry no airport figure and drop out when you filter on it.

Read the acreage carefully

• A few listings are operating businesses — hunting outfitters — where the acreage is the area they operate over, often leased public land, not the deeded parcel being sold. 100,000 acres for $175,000 is that, not a bargain. Those cards carry a warning.
• Some listings are a house on acreage, not bare land. The price buys the building too, so their price per acre is not comparable — a log home on five acres reads as $67,000 an acre. Those cards carry a warning and sort after bare land whenever the ordering is derived from acreage.
• Price per acre is computed from the listed price and acreage. It is a sorting aid, not an appraisal.
• Your star ratings and notes are kept in a SQLite database on the server, so they follow you between phone and desktop. They are yours alone — nothing is sent to the sellers.