Land in Kerens and around Richland-Chambers

Kerens was founded in 1881 when the Cotton Belt built through and bypassed Wadeville — the businesses there picked up and moved to the new townsite, which took Judge R. C. Kerens’s name. It was a cotton town for a century. Then the dam closed in 1987, the water was full by 1989, and what land here is worth has been decided by that ever since.

Richland-Chambers belongs to the Tarrant Regional Water District. A tract on the shoreline adjoins District land; a dock or a boathouse is a permitted improvement on District property, not something a deed conveys. The District sizes it by frontage — eight square feet of structure for every linear foot of shoreline owned, to a maximum of 1,200 — requires a permit for work below elevation 320 feet, and doesn’t allow enclosed structures or living quarters. That’s a different thing from owning a stock tank, and it belongs in the conversation before the price is set rather than after.

On Chambers and Richland creeks: 1,125,199 acre-feet and 43,874 surface acres at conservation pool, around 330 miles of shoreline, and the third-largest inland reservoir lying entirely within Texas. Public ramps run off State Highway 309, FM 2859, FM 637 and FM 488.

Fence Post Solar — 297 megawatts with 86 megawatts of storage, operating since December 2023 — was written as a Kerens ISD tax agreement, and Gaia Solar, 143 megawatts near Kerens, sells its environmental attributes to Meta. Whatever an owner thinks of them, they are here, they are on the roll, and they changed who has been buying acreage out this way.