Lockett Ranches

Lockett Ranches sits just outside the City of Flagstaff on a forested mesa northwest of town, reached from Highway 180 by a paved road. It is unincorporated Coconino County, zoned RR-2 with a 2-acre minimum, and its association roads, Quintana Drive and Hattie Greene Road, recall Hattie Greene Lockett, the rancher remembered as the Sheep Queen of Arizona. Homes are custom, set among ponderosa pines, meadows, ponds, and rock outcroppings with views of the San Francisco Peaks.

On acreage like Lockett Ranches, we walk the water setup before the floor plan. A shared deep well, a cistern, and a hauled-water home can look the same from the driveway and live very differently.

Because Lockett Ranches sees fewer than ten sales a year, these figures cover the last three years. The MLS shows 14 single-family closings, 8 of them in the last twelve months, between $1,035,000 and $3,750,000, with a median of $2,500,000 and the middle half between about $2,025,000 and $2,775,000. The typical home sold was about 4,200 square feet, built around 2005, on about 2.6 acres. Median days on market was about 96.

Life here runs on different systems than in town. The fire district contracts with the City of Flagstaff Fire Department, with service mainly from Station 5 on Fort Valley Road; the association's Design Review Committee signs off on exterior changes down to paint and fencing; and the water source depends on the lot. That mix is why a good purchase plan here starts with the well, the roads, and the association documents.