Last reviewed September 10, 2026 · County data updated as new figures are released.
Looking for land for sale in Gasconade County, Missouri? Justin Head and Ryan Record, land specialists with Whitetail Properties, help buyers and sellers with river-bottom farms, hardwood ridges, and hunting land along the Gasconade and Bourbeuse Rivers from Hermann to the southern uplands — and Justin is also a licensed Missouri attorney with 20 years in real estate law, handling the legal side of rural transactions.
Farms & Land for Sale in Gasconade County, Missouri
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Gasconade County is small, rural, and exactly the kind of place a serious land buyer falls in love with. The Gasconade River cuts through the heart of the county on its way to the Missouri, carrying with it some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the Midwest. The hardwood ridges that flank the river are mature, productive, and full of whitetail. Hermann — the county seat — sits in the middle of one of the most established wine regions in America. If you want country that still feels like country, with timber that’s been growing since before your grandfather was born, Gasconade County is hard to beat.
2026 Gasconade County Land Snapshot
- 2026 median: $5,458 per acre across 8 qualifying closings (through August 31, 2026)
- 2026 range: $4,990–$6,995 per acre
- Median time to contract: 43 days (full dataset)
Full closed-sale data, price zones and methodology: The Bare Dirt Report: Gasconade County. All five counties side by side: Bare Dirt Reports. Checking utilities or development potential? Start with our guide to rural electric service in Missouri.
Land for sale in Gasconade County
We list hunting, farm, timber, and recreational land throughout Gasconade County. Our active inventory changes throughout the year. See our current listings, or use the county Bare Dirt Report for closed-sale prices. Browse what we currently have, or find out what your own ground is worth.
What Gasconade County Land Is Known For
- The Gasconade River — smallmouth bass, float trips, and some of the highest-value river-bottom land in central Missouri
- Hermann and the Missouri Rhineland — vineyards, wineries, and the cultural draw of one of America’s most established wine regions
- Mature hardwood timber — oak, hickory, walnut, and ash on the rolling ridges that define the county
- Big whitetail — managed properties in this county routinely produce mature bucks; turkey populations are strong
- A small, tight-knit community — Hermann, Owensville, Bland, and Rosebud anchor a county where most landowners know each other
Towns of Gasconade County
Gasconade is small and rural — fewer than 15,000 people countywide — but it punches above its weight, anchored by one of Missouri’s best-known river towns.
Hermann has been the county seat since 1842, a town of about 2,200 perched on the Missouri River and the heart of the Hermann wine country, where a cluster of wineries produces roughly a third of the state’s wine. Its German brick-and-stone streetscape and year-round festivals draw visitors from St. Louis and Kansas City, which means land near Hermann trades on a strong second-home and short-term-rental market wrapped around vineyards and river bluffs.
Owensville is the county’s largest town at about 2,750, sitting on the Highway 28/19 crossroads in the rolling farm country of the interior. It’s the practical hub — everyday services and schools — for the working farms and timber tracts around it.
Bland is a small town on the county’s southwestern edge, a gateway to quieter ground toward the Gasconade River and the kind of place buyers look when they want acreage and privacy over amenities.
Rosebud and Bay sit along the Highway 50 corridor through the county’s eastern farm country — quiet farm-and-timber ground where smaller acreages and hobby farms are in steady demand. Morrison anchors the Missouri River bottoms in the northwest corner with some of the county’s strongest row-crop ground, and just across the river the Rhineland and McKittrick bottoms are part of the same farming neighborhood.
Together they frame a county defined by the Missouri River and wine country in the north, rolling south into working farm-and-timber ground along the Gasconade.
Property Types Common in Gasconade County
- River-bottom tracts — tillable bottom land with frontage on the Gasconade or its tributaries
- Managed hunting properties — mature timber with food plot infrastructure and proven deer history
- Hardwood timber tracts — long-rotation oak and walnut ground worth a real timber cruise
- Recreational retreats — cabin sites, fishing access, and weekend properties
- Cattle and hay farms — working ag land in the gentler parts of the county
- Country homes and farmsteads — houses on acreage, older home places, and shop buildings around Hermann, Owensville, and Bland
Farm Ground Benchmarks: Gasconade County
Sources: USDA NASS county cash rent estimates (Aug. 2024); USDA FSA CRP contract data (Sept. 30, 2025); 2022 Census of Agriculture; MU Extension 2024 Cash Rental Rate Survey. Reviewed July 2026.
Gasconade County has the strongest grass market of the five counties we serve: pasture rents average $31.00 per acre — still under the $37.50 statewide average, but tops in our footprint — with non-irrigated cropland at $42.50. The premium is no accident: 727 farms run 37,564 cattle here on an average of 265 acres, and hay comes off 30,750 acres. Grass is the crop in Gasconade County.
CRP plays a small role: 344.95 acres under contract at an average of $74.86 per enrolled acre (existing contracts, not new-offer rates). With statewide hunting leases averaging $21.45 per acre (MU Extension, 2024), a Gasconade County tract that runs cattle and holds deer can stack rent, lease, and appreciation — the combination that keeps this county’s land tightly held.
Farms for Sale in Gasconade County
Gasconade County is the most balanced farm county we serve, and that is unusual enough to be worth saying plainly. USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 727 farms on 192,365 acres, split almost evenly three ways: 64,160 acres of cropland (33%), 51,009 acres of pasture (27%), and 66,226 acres of woodland (34%). Sales split nearly down the middle too — 49% crops, 51% livestock — with 37,564 head of cattle and $15.9 million in cattle sales.
Practically, that means a Gasconade County farm can be a river-bottom row-crop operation, a hardwood ridge hunting tract, a cow-calf place, or all three inside one fence. Buyers arrive from every direction, and the tract has to be presented so each of them can see what they came for.
- Tillable acres — bottom ground, soil productivity, drainage, and current lease terms
- Pasture and hay — grass acres and the 30,750 acres of forage cut countywide put real value on hay ground
- Timber — hardwood on the ridges — a third of county farmland is woodland, and it is not filler
- Cattle infrastructure — pens, barns, working facilities, and water distribution
- Water and frontage — Gasconade and Bourbeuse frontage, creeks, springs, ponds and wells
- Leases and ag status — crop leases, CRP or other program enrollment, and how they transfer at closing
Selling a farm in Gasconade County
A tract with tillable bottoms, grass, and timber has three separate buyer pools, and the highest price usually comes from whichever one is currently short of inventory. We work that out before pricing, verify how any crop lease or program enrollment carries at closing, and clear access and title questions up front. Country homes and farmsteads price the same way, with the house and outbuildings valued separately from the ground they sit on.
Public Hunting & Conservation Land Nearby
Hunters considering Gasconade County have public access nearby, anchored by Canaan Conservation Area (~1,435 acres) near Bland — forest and woodland glade with creek frontage and a 10-mile trail — plus several Gasconade and Bourbeuse River accesses. See our guide to public hunting in the Missouri Ozarks for acreage, allowed game, and official maps across all five counties.
Deer & Turkey Harvest
In the 2025–26 season, hunters reported 4,073 deer taken in Gasconade County across all methods, along with 790 turkeys in the 2025 regular spring season. See our Deer & Turkey Harvest by County page for five-year trends across all five counties we serve.
Floating & Rivers Nearby
Gasconade County holds the big, slow lower reaches of its namesake river plus a quiet stretch of the Bourbeuse — bring-your-own-boat bass water with MDC ramps at Fredericksburg Ferry and Gasconade Park. See our guide to our favorite floats in the Missouri Ozarks for access points and outfitters across all five counties.
Where to Stay Nearby
Gasconade County is wine country — Hermann is full of vineyard inns, historic B&Bs, and cottages you can book direct for a weekend on the river and the wine trail. See our guide to where to stay in the Missouri Ozarks for direct-booking cabins, inns, and rentals across all five counties.
Selling Land in Gasconade County, Missouri
Thinking about selling your Gasconade County land? This is a small, rural county that serious land buyers fall hard for. The Missouri River and Hermann wine country anchor the north, while the ground rolls south into working farm-and-timber country along the Gasconade River — and there’s a buyer pool for all of it: hunters chasing river-bottom and ridge timber, farmers, and buyers who want acreage and privacy near Hermann, Owensville, or Bland. Whether your tract is timbered ground toward the Gasconade or open pasture in the north, it sells when it’s priced and marketed right.
We price Gasconade County land on what comparable parcels are actually closing for — not a fantasy number the market won’t support — using real local sales, including the closed price-per-acre data we track every quarter in the Ozarks Land Report. As landowners and hunters here ourselves, we handle the whole sale: valuation, drone and mapping work, qualifying buyers, and closing. If you want a straight answer about what your property is worth, request a free, no-obligation land valuation or call Justin or Ryan directly.
Before you price anything, see the closed-sale numbers: The Bare Dirt Report: What Gasconade County Land Is Actually Worth reports the median price per acre by year, price zones, tract-size tiers, and time to contract from three years of qualifying MLS closings in this county.
Thinking of selling? Start with our guide to selling land in Gasconade County — valuation to closing, step by step.
Talk to a Local Land Agent
Justin Head · (573) 308-7376 · justin.head@whitetailproperties.com
Ryan Record · (573) 259-6360 · ryan.record@whitetailproperties.com
Justin and Ryan are Whitetail Properties land specialists covering all of Gasconade County — Hermann, Owensville, Bland, Rosebud, Bay, and Morrison alike — with the local comp data to price ground right the first time.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is land selling for in Gasconade County, Missouri?
River-bottom crop ground, hardwood ridge hunting land, and small-acreage homesites near Hermann and Owensville are genuinely different markets, so county-wide averages mislead more than they inform. We track what actually closed each quarter in the free Ozarks Land Report, and a free valuation gets you a number specific to your farm.
How is selling inherited land different from a normal sale?
Inherited ground usually adds a title layer — confirming how the land actually passed, whether through a trust, beneficiary deed, or probate — and sometimes several heirs who all have to agree. We walk through the Missouri rules in our guide to selling inherited land in Missouri, and with a licensed attorney on the team, sorting out the paperwork side is something we do regularly.
How long does it take to sell a farm in Gasconade County?
It depends on the property and the price. Good river-bottom tillable tends to draw attention fast; remote ridge ground without maintained road access takes patience. We’ll tell you which category your farm falls into before you list, not after.
What should I know about buying river-bottom ground along the Gasconade?
Bottom ground brings fertile soils and serious deer and turkey habitat, but also floodplain questions — how often it’s been underwater, what FEMA maps say, and how access roads behave in high water. We walk that ground with you and pull the history before you commit, because the river giveth and the river occasionally taketh.
What does pasture rent for in Gasconade County, Missouri?
Per USDA county estimates (August 2024), pasture in Gasconade County rents for about $31 per acre — the strongest grass market of the five counties we track — with non-irrigated cropland about $42.50. Hunting leases average $21.45 per acre statewide per MU Extension’s 2024 survey. Justin Head and Ryan Record, land specialists with Whitetail Properties, track Gasconade County rents, land values, and closed sales — get a free valuation of your land on the What Is My Land Worth page.
Gasconade County Land Research — The Tools We Use
Before you make a move on Gasconade County ground, a couple of public databases will tell you most of what you need to know — what the parcel looks like, who owns it and what it’s assessed at, and whether a survey already exists. These are the ones we lean on for every Gasconade County tract.
Gasconade County GIS / parcel maps (Integrity GIS)
The Gasconade County GIS viewer maps every parcel on aerial imagery, searchable by owner, parcel number, or address. Use it to get a feel for a tract’s shape, approximate acreage, road frontage, and surroundings before you ever head out to walk it. Worth repeating: GIS boundaries are an approximation for planning, not a survey-grade line.
Gasconade County Collector — real estate & tax search
The Gasconade County Collector’s real estate search gives you the official tax and ownership record on any parcel — owner of record, parcel number, assessed value, and the taxes due. It’s the quickest way to confirm who holds a tract and whether the taxes are current before you dig in further.
Missouri Land Survey Index — recorded surveys statewide
And don’t skip the Missouri Land Survey Index from the Department of Agriculture, where you can track down and buy any survey recorded for a Gasconade County tract. If the corners have already been pinned, it’s far cheaper to find that survey than to order a new one.
For more on rural due diligence, see our guides on checking legal access before you buy and Missouri’s purple paint law.
These are third-party and government resources — information can be outdated or incomplete, and none of it replaces a current survey or a title search. When you’re ready to buy or sell in Gasconade County, or want help reading any of it, call Justin Head at (573) 308-7376 or Ryan Record at (573) 259-6360.