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Posted by otherwatersflow 10 hours ago

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land(unfenced.land)
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willschneider26 1 hour ago|
Very cool thought about something similar. How are you getting the data if you dont mind me asking?
ltsSmitty 9 hours ago||
This is super cool. I love this use of public data to do something cool. The page seems like it's biggest value is to help potential property buyers find property they wouldn't easily be able to otherwise (that's what I like about it). Given that, seems like being able to filter on cost and size of lot would be useful filters on top.
otherwatersflow 9 hours ago|
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runtime_terror 6 hours ago||
Cool concept!

One big issue: not having a price and acreage range selectors means you see a lot of 0.2acre lots and $8mm parcels which I'm assuming most of us wouldn't be looking for

caseyf7 6 hours ago||
Very cool project. One of my favorite Show HN posts. It’s interesting to see how hard it is to line up the maps from different sources, but in most cases it is close enough to dig further. A really useful tool. Thank you
dirtbag__dad 7 hours ago||
Yes! As another Pennsylvanian, this is a hard requirement for my forever home. The idea that I’d go all-in on a large property in an undeveloped area, only for the surrounding land to get developed or demolished is scary. State game lands is a way to protect against that outcome.

Also a concern is proximity to fracking and now data centers. Not sure how to see if neighbors sold their underground…

As an anecdote, my parent’s home, where I grew up, is a small plot along my town’s watershed property. When the price of lumber went up recently, the town council conveniently remembered that the watershed property was once a massive “tree farm,” and since has leveled all of the surrounding woods. We never expected this. It has been emotionally crushing.

hasbot 6 hours ago||
Gonna have the same "issue" with private lands. Over the 20+ years I owned a tree farm in rural Oregon, numerous of the nearby parcels were clearcut. This has benefits too. One day I was up on my ridge and was surprised to see a mountain I had never seen before because the ridge to the north was just clearcut.
otherwatersflow 7 hours ago||
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ProjectArcturis 5 hours ago||
Very cool! I would love the ability to search for land with or without a house, or at least to be able to sort by $ per acre.
bobmcnamara 5 hours ago||
Whoa, one of these is right up the road from a cannibal murder.

Small world.

AndrewKemendo 7 hours ago||
I appreciate this OP

As somebody who is constantly looking for property adjacent to BLM this is a really good resource.

Edit: as of 1200ET the OP responding to me nicely is flagged/dead which is crazy. What is happening?

otherwatersflow 6 hours ago|
Thank you, that's great to hear. Honestly, the number of properties next to BLM was one of the things that surprised me most when I started building this, there's ~2,700 right now. On the map you can set the land type to BLM to see just those. And since you're always looking: any search can send you a weekly email when new matches turn up (starts Monday). Curious what else you check for on BLM-adjacent land?
hk__2 8 hours ago||
*in the US only.
rafram 8 hours ago|
Did you exclude NPS units intentionally?
otherwatersflow 8 hours ago|
No, they're in. About 470 properties border or sit near NPS land (parks, monuments, recreation areas, lakeshores), e.g. a few along the edge of the Smokies. You're right that the headline copy only mentions national forest, BLM and state land, so that's misleading; I need to update the wording. The map's land-type filter has a "National Park Service" option if you want to see just those.
rafram 2 hours ago||
I don't see a single national park in California or Utah on those states' maps.
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