John joined Hall and Hall to set up and run our Kansas office in 2010. He has marketed farms, ranches, equestrian centers, cattle feed yards, and agricultural water rights throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. Born and raised in Kansas, John grew up around ranching and ranch real estate. John attended Kansas State University, became a licensed pilot and joined his father at Doug Wildin & Associates Ranch Brokers in 1978. Since then he has successfully marketed hundreds of thousands of acres of farm and ranch real estate. He has spent his career developing personal and business relationships with many agricultural producers throughout the United States and serving their real estate needs in an ethical and service oriented manner. His decades of farming and ranching experience served as a background for his broad working knowledge of all phases of livestock and farm production agriculture. John loves the outdoors and relishes time spent at his second home in the Colorado mountains. John resides in Hutchinson, Kansas and has two grown children.
The Rigden Ranch is in an incomparable western setting of high mesas and open valleys that have seen Indian tribes, miners, settlers, and ranchers live here through the years of recorded history. This includes Virgil Earp, who homesteaded on the ranch along Kirkland Creek after his time in Tombstone, Arizona, with his brother Wyatt. The ranch has been in the care of the Rigden family, including the famed sculptor and painter Cynthia Rigden, for over a century. Along a popular scenic route for travelers soaking in the desert landscape, there is plenty of land and water for the dreams of future owners to be realized.
Rigden Ranch has paved Highway 89, dividing the ranch into roughly two equal parts. On the east side of the highway, there are open valleys and high mesas with Kirkland Creek in a deep canyon running north from the south boundary and turning northwest through open valleys on the north end. The hills have scrub oak brush, and the open valleys have a variety of grasses and shrubs with willows and a variety of trees along the washes and Kirkland Creek. On the west side of the highway, Kirkland Creek opens and spreads out until it becomes the north boundary. The deeded land lies along the highway's east side, and the west half is the State of Arizona Grazing Lands. There are shipping pens on the west side, and the ranch is divided into a large main pasture, a smaller pasture on the northwest end, and a holding pasture at the Rabbit, which was irrigated in the past. The west side has higher hills and mesas on the south end and more hills along the west side in the State Grazing Land with open valleys and flats on the north end draining to Kirkland Creek.
The Rigden Ranch is for sale for the first time in over 100 years. This well-operating cattle ranch sits right in the heart of ‘cow country’ in central Arizona. Its prime location, coupled with the large block of deeded land and direct access off the main highway, makes the ranch a highly desirable real estate play. The Rigden Ranch has great scenery, excellent water, and tons of access. The opportunities for a variety of uses, either now or in the future, are waiting for a visionary owner to secure the storied landscapes in their portfolio.
The Rigden Ranch is in Central Arizona, about 20 miles south of Prescott, Arizona, on Highway 89. The property straddles Highway 89 for a little over two miles. Wickenburg is 34 miles south, Yarnell is ten miles south, and Kirkland is four miles northwest on Kirkland Valley Road.
The Rigden Ranch is in Yavapai County, known for its historic ranching history. It sits amidst long-time large ranches and newer small ranchettes, lying between the small communities of Kirkland on the north and Peeples Valley and Yarnell on the south. Major shopping and services are in Prescott, Arizona, about 45 minutes away via paved roads.
The climate in this area is four-season, with cool winters and mild summers. The average annual rainfall is estimated to be between 14” and 16”.
4,241± acres deeded land
3,066.86± acres State Grazing Lease #05-1124
7,308.79± acres total or 11.42 sections
The carrying capacity based on the State Land allowed use is 110 animal units (AU), with 43 AU allocated to the State Land and 67 AU allocated to the deeded land. Actual use is more animal units during normal rainfall years because the deeded land is in one contiguous block, and the State Land is also in one contiguous block. The Rigden Ranch is leased to a neighboring ranch for cattle grazing.
The Rigden Ranch runs from 4,000 feet above sea level on the north end to 4,462 feet on the south.
The rangeland slopes to the north and northwest. The south end has rugged canyons and mesas with open level valleys and small hills in the middle and north portions of the ranch. Kirkland Creek enters the ranch in the southeast in a confined canyon, opening to a wide wash through most of the ranch. The rangeland has perennial grama grasses, plains lovegrass, and Arizona cottontop. Shrubs found on the ranch are scrub oak, mesquite, wait-a-bit, and mountain mahogany. Cottonwood trees, live oak trees, and willow trees are along the drainages.
*Offered in cooperation with Jim Webb of Hebbard & Webb, Inc.
The Rigden Ranch does not have any buildings. The improvements include four wells, dirt stock ponds, shipping pens, branding pens, and fences. The ranch is fenced on the perimeter, has a pasture fence, and has holding traps.
Water resources include four solar-powered wells with storage and troughs, two springs, seven stock ponds, and seasonal water from Kirkland Creek.
Yavapai County Real Estate Taxes are estimated to be $600 for 2025.
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