The ground we cover
Liberty County land clearing centers on Cleveland and runs out along the US-59/I-69 corridor and FM 1010, the road most people know as Plum Grove Road, which runs about 9 miles from SH 321 in Cleveland south to Plum Grove. That corridor is also the spine of the Colony Ridge development, roughly 33,000 acres of subdivided land carved out of what used to be piney woods and hunting leases since clearing started there back in 2012. Most of our lot clearing calls come from inside those subdivisions: Santa Fe, Camino Real, Grand San Jacinto, Bella Vista, and Montebello.
- Cleveland, TX 77327
- Plum Grove, TX
- Splendora, TX
- Shepherd, TX
- Tarkington community
- FM 1010 / Plum Grove Rd corridor
- Hwy 105 & Hwy 321 area
- Colony Ridge subdivisions
One fact, not an adjective: the soil under most of this ground is reddish, loamy on the surface with a clayey, iron-rich subsoil typical of the East Texas Timberlands, and it holds water a lot longer than sandier ground once you get down near the San Jacinto and Trinity river bottoms. That's why the same size job can take a different number of days depending on which side of Cleveland it sits on.
Cleveland and Plum Grove
This is the core of our lot-clearing work. Colony Ridge lot owners along FM 1010 and the subdivision roads branching off it, Santa Fe, Camino Real, Grand San Jacinto, Bella Vista, Montebello, are buying raw wooded lots and need timber down before a home goes in. A lot of this ground is still raw and getting cleared for the first time, which is why so much of our call volume is first-time clearing rather than a second pass on land that's already been worked.
Splendora
Splendora sits at the western edge of our ring, along the Montgomery County line. We clear acreage and lot work here on the same terms as Cleveland proper, and Splendora Independent School District actually reaches into parts of the Cleveland area, so plenty of families here are already tied into the same school zone as Cleveland residents even though the ZIP code changes.
Shepherd and Tarkington
Shepherd, the largest town in neighboring San Jacinto County, sits about 50 miles north of Houston off US 59, and the land out this direction leans more heavily wooded, loblolly pine, cedar, oak, sweetgum, and hickory, with 60 percent of San Jacinto County inside the Sam Houston National Forest boundary. Tarkington, closer to Cleveland and served by Tarkington Independent School District, is where we see the most acreage and hunting-lease clearing, trail work and selective underbrush removal for landowners who bought timber tracts for weekend use rather than a homesite.
Burn bans and why that matters here
Liberty County issues a burn ban in dry stretches, and under Texas Local Government Code 352.082, outdoor burning of household refuse is already restricted year-round on tracts under 5 acres inside a qualifying subdivision like Colony Ridge, separate from whatever county-wide ban is active that month. Forestry mulching sidesteps that problem entirely since there's no pile to burn, which is one reason it's become the default way to clear a small lot in this area instead of the old push-and-burn method. Check with the county or your POA before burning anything on your lot, rules like this get amended and the current fine schedule can change.
One limit worth knowing: if your property sits outside this five-town ring, tell us your county and address and we'll give you a straight yes or no rather than stringing you along. We'd rather turn down a job outside our zone than show up two hours late because the drive was longer than we planned for.