DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Texas, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Texas. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Texas
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Two hundred fifty four counties, and every kind of land.
Texas covers brush country, hill country limestone, Panhandle flats and Piney Woods timber, and the buyer's question changes with each. What does not change is that the tract is too big or too remote to show from a gate, and that most Texas land is now sold to somebody looking at a screen.
A section in Brewster County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Travis County, and tanks, senderos, brush and caliche roads read clearly from above.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Mesquite and prickly pear on the flats, a tank in the draw, senderos cut north to south, and a caliche road in from the county road.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Texas delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Texas land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Texas county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a Texas parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Texas county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Ranch and grazing land, hunting and recreational tracts, irrigated and dryland cropland on the plains, timber in the east, and Hill Country acreage.
- Typical uses
- Ranch and farm sales, hunting and recreation, rural homesites, and large tracts assembled from several parcels.
- Reads well from above
- Stock tanks, fence lines and pastures, brush density against open ground, center pivot circles on irrigated fields, creek bottoms and the roads that cross the tract.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the account or property ID on the appraisal record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a Texas tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Texas ground.
Which Texas counties can you do?
Any Texas county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
What Texas land do people order packs for, ranch, recreation or crops?
Ranch and grazing land, hunting and recreational tracts, irrigated and dryland cropland on the plains, timber in the east, and Hill Country acreage. Typical uses there: ranch and farm sales, hunting and recreation, rural homesites, and large tracts assembled from several parcels.
Will tanks, senderos and brush show up?
Clearly. Tanks, senderos, brush density, food plots and the caliche roads between them all read from above, and the boundary shows which of it is on your side of the fence. Whether a tank is holding depends on the imagery date, which is stamped on the pack.
Can you cover a large multi-tract ranch in one image?
Yes. Adjoining parcels entered together merge into one boundary, so a ranch assembled from many accounts renders as a single outline. On big Texas ranches that is usually the reason people order it.
Which number do I enter for a Texas parcel, the account or the property ID?
In Texas, the number to look for is the account or property ID on the appraisal record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What shows up best from above on Texas land?
Stock tanks, fence lines and pastures, brush density against open ground, center pivot circles on irrigated fields, creek bottoms and the roads that cross the tract. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Texas parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.