These photos are from the surrounding area, not this exact parcel. They show the kind of country the lot sits in.
Crowley Avenue, El Paso, TX 79928
Open Chihuahuan desert on the eastern edge of the El Paso metro, half an acre sitting up around 4,044 feet with mountains on the horizon and a supply run that takes twenty-odd minutes, not a day. Texas counties don't zone out here, so you can set a home, a manufactured place, or a mobile on it and run it off solar and hauled water if you like. It's a buildable lot near a real city, minus the city telling you what to do with it.
Room of Your Own Where the City Thins Out Into Desert
You've watched in-town lots climb to numbers that stopped making sense a while back, and every one came with a rulebook and a builder's clock attached. This is the other road. Half an acre of open West Texas desert on the sunrise edge of the El Paso metro, where the pavement gives out to creosote and the mountains sit right there on the skyline.
Out here you set the pace. Set a home, manufactured, or mobile on it, run solar and haul your water to start (there's no shortage of sun to point panels at out here), and you're on ground that's yours. Home builder priced out of town, off-grid tinkerer, weekend desert rat, or the guy whose only rulebook out here is the county septic code? Room here for all of you.
You're twenty minutes from El Paso proper, with Horizon City close by when you need fuel, groceries, or a reminder that other people exist, sitting up around 4,044 feet with the valley spread below. El Paso took its name from the old pass, El Paso del Norte, where the Rio Grande cut a gap through the mountains and folks have headed north through it for centuries.
Now the straight talk: you're bringing your own power and water to start, and a few of the platted streets out here are still more idea than road. The trade for that is a lot with no zoning board in it, where a septic permit is about the only box to check.
Folks have come through this pass for centuries chasing whatever waited on the far side of it. This time the ground on the far side could carry your name.
Is this your kind of land
A homestead or off-grid cabin where you drill a well, install a septic system, and build on flat desert ground with mountain views.
Not a fit for long-term RV living, mobile home parks, or buyers who need municipal water and sewer hookups within walking distance.
On the ground
The red outline on the map is approximate. It is drawn from county records to show roughly where the lot sits, not a surveyed boundary.
Corner coordinates are approximate. Verify against the recorded plat before relying on them.
The record
† From county maps and records. Check with the county, or ask your Land Specialist what we have on file.
Dig deeper
Water: On-site: None. Options: Well or Haul. Would be a well, water haul and holding tank or other similar option
Sewer / septic: On-site: None. Options: Septic.
This is about as friendly as raw land gets for putting up a place of your own. Because it sits in unincorporated El Paso County, Texas, there's no zoning to work around. You can build a conventional home, drop a modular, manufactured, or mobile home, or start small and go tiny, with no minimum size the county holds you to. The one approval that matters is an on-site septic (OSSF) permit. Power is solar to start in the El Paso Electric region, water is hauled or a well until you confirm a tap inside the Horizon Regional MUD, and being roughly twenty minutes from El Paso means the hardware store and the airport are never far. Check the HOA and POA status, then build on your own schedule.
A plain-language summary of how El Paso County's No General Zoning, Border Subdivision Rules Apply zone reads, current to October 2026. It is not a determination of what you may do here, and it is not legal or land-use advice.
El Paso County decides what is allowed, not us. Confirm current rules with Planning & Zoning before you buy.
What it costs
Pay it off early, any time, with no penalty.
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