Somers, WI

Somers is older than Kenosha County. The village's municipal history says the Wisconsin territorial legislature created the Town of Pike in what was then Racine County on April 15, 1843. Kenosha County was split off from Racine County by an act approved January 30, 1850, and a state law approved March 11, 1851 renamed the Town of Pike as Somers. The same page tracks the town's population from 680 in 1850 to 2,044 in 1900.

Green Bay Road is the spine of that history. The village's history page on the road dates it to an act of Congress approved June 15, 1832, which set up a post road between Chicago and Green Bay. Two historical markers survive in Somers: one on Highway 31 south of Highway A, and one near the bridge at the north end of Petrifying Springs Park.

Several of today's place names come from older crossroads communities. Wikipedia's village entry describes three. Berryville, at Highway A (7th Street) and Sheridan Road, was named for strawberry farms, and the Mid-City Outdoor Theatre, one of Wisconsin's first drive-ins, ran there from 1948 to 1984. Central Park, at Sheridan Road and 12th Street (Highway E), was a private picnic ground and ball field served by an interurban rail stop. Kellogg's Corners sits at I-94 and Highway 195 on the Racine County line.

The modern turning point came in 2015. On April 7, 2015 voters approved incorporating part of the town as a village, 676 to 526, and the state issued the certificate of incorporation on April 24, 2015. The village's profile says the new village took 73% of the old town's equalized value. On October 20, 2015 the village annexed most of the rest, leaving only what the documents call the "B" area as the Town of Somers. The next section explains what that remnant is today.

Somers today is two municipalities that share one village hall. The village is the big one. The Census 2024 gazetteer gives it 25.779 square miles of land, and the 2020 census counted 8,402 people per Wikipedia. The Department of Revenue's 2025 Town, Village and City Taxes report puts the village at 8,492 people and $1.739 billion of full value.

The Town of Somers still exists. I checked its status on October 5, 2026, because several websites describe it as gone. The same DOR report lists the Town of Somers as its own taxing district with 950 people and $131.1 million of full value, and the gazetteer gives it 2.443 square miles. The town still has a board: the village posted on September 8, 2026 that that evening's Town Board meeting was canceled for lack of a quorum. Most of the remnant town lies along or inside the City of Kenosha's boundary.

Its future is tied to a 2005 agreement. The village's boundary-agreement page describes a 2005 cooperative plan between the Town of Somers and the City of Kenosha under Wisconsin Statute 66.0307, running 30 years, that sets a permanent line roughly along Highway S, Highway 31, Highway L, 41st Avenue, Highway E and Sheridan Road, around the north edge of Carthage College to the lake. The plan includes a legal description of the town land "to be eventually annexed into the City of Kenosha." Wikipedia,_Wisconsin) summarizes this as the remnant town being slated to become part of Kenosha by 2035. If you look at a parcel in the town, I'd read that agreement before anything else, because the parcel's future city services and tax rate depend on it.

The mailing address is the other trap. The village says only post office boxes carry a Somers ZIP code, 53171, and every other Somers address falls in one of 13 other ZIP codes, including Kenosha, Racine, Pleasant Prairie, Bristol, Caledonia, Sturtevant and Union Grove. TMJ4 reported in August 2026 that the village asked the Postal Service for its own ZIP in 2022, was denied, and is now pressing for federal legislation. On a listing, "Kenosha, WI 53144" can be a Somers house. Coming from Lake County, Illinois, where the mailing town usually matches the tax bill, the buyers I talk to don't expect that, and the municipality line on the tax bill is the only thing I'd trust.

The village has its own map of neighborhoods. Its neighborhood plans page lists 16 planning neighborhoods, most drawn up in 2008, each a few hundred to about 1,200 acres. They are planning areas, not subdivisions, but they are the most useful way I have found to read the village, because price and character change from east to west.

The Lakeshore neighborhood runs along Lake Michigan between Racine and Kenosha, sandwiched between the Pike River and the lake, with Sheridan Road (Highway 32) as its road. Berryville sits at its south end. This is the only part of Somers with lake views, and it is also where bluff erosion has been a recurring issue, covered in the lakefront section.

The Parkside, Parkside East and Parkside North neighborhoods are the green middle. The plan notes that most of the Parkside neighborhood's 936 acres are owned by Kenosha County (Petrifying Springs Park) and the State of Wisconsin (UW-Parkside). Homes here sit along Wood Road (Highway G), 7th Street (Highway A) and the county roads around the park.

Somers Center and the neighborhoods around it, including Hawthorn, Fairfield, Pike Creek, Southeast and South Central, hold most of the village's subdivisions. Village Hall and the post office are on 12th Street (Highway E), and Green Bay Road (Highway 31) carries the commercial strip. The Somers Market Center at Green Bay Road and Highway 142/S is the main shopping area, per the village profile.

West of the Canadian Pacific tracks, the Kilbourn, Kilbourn South, Southwest, Northwest and Country Club neighborhoods run out to I-94. This is where farmland is turning into business parks and new subdivisions, and where Maplecrest Country Club, now being redeveloped for housing, sits on 18th Street. Along the Racine County line, Highway KR (1st Street) marks the northern edge.

Somers has a more varied housing stock than its farm-town reputation suggests. The 2020-2024 American Community Survey counts 3,506 housing units in the village. About 51% (1,788) are detached houses and 6% (219) are single-family attached. Buildings of five or more units account for about 26% (895), and there are 231 manufactured homes. Of the 3,254 occupied homes, 2,050, about 63%, are owner-occupied. The survey counts no seasonal units, so Somers is a year-round market, not a second-home lake town.

The median home was built in 1987, against 1975 for Kenosha County. Construction came in waves: 408 homes before 1940, 563 in the 1970s, 603 in the 1990s, 608 in the 2000s and 332 in the 2010s. About 93 date to 2020 or later, and the development section shows that number is climbing quickly.

The survey's median owner-estimated value is $315,300, with a wide margin of plus or minus $44,741, against $265,500 for the county. The median gross rent is $1,455. These are five-year averages of owner estimates, so they lag the current market, which the market section covers with Zillow and Redfin data.

The remnant Town of Somers is a different stock. The ACS counts 455 homes there, 400 of them detached, with a median year built of 1967 and a median value of $257,500 (plus or minus $19,133). For an older town house I'd ask early about the well, the septic or sewer connection, and which city services the 2005 agreement will bring.

Each era brings its own inspection list. A pre-1940 farmhouse can have a stone foundation and several decades of additions. A 1970s ranch is often on its second roof and original windows. A 2000s house is reaching the age where furnace, water heater and roof come due together. The expectation I most often reset with Illinois buyers is that a newer house means no near-term spending.

By the public numbers I could find, it doesn't. Somers is not a $2 million-plus lakefront house market today.

Here is the dated evidence. On October 5, 2026 Coldwell Banker's Somers search page showed 58 active or pending listings with a Somers address. The highest-priced house was $800,000: a three-bedroom, 975-square-foot house on Sheridan Road, a price that reflects the land more than the building. A 1.35-acre vacant parcel on Sheridan Road was also listed at $800,000, and a 1.55-acre Sheridan Road parcel with a Racine mailing address at $299,900. I could not confirm from the listings which of these have direct lake frontage, so treat them as lake-road prices.

The listings above $2 million were all development land. The top was 222 acres on Green Bay Road at $33.3 million, followed by 155 acres on 18th Street at $23.25 million and 140.83 acres on 18th Street at $21.1 million. Seven land listings were priced above $4 million. That is commercial and industrial acreage near I-94, not estate property, and I cover it in the development section.

The shoreline itself is a bluff, and the bluff moves. In 2019 and 2020, when Lake Michigan reached record levels, FOX6 reported on September 24, 2019 that a Somers lakefront house was hanging over the water and the village had issued a raze order. The village's lakefront erosion page explains that bank stabilization needs an Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit 13, limited to 500 feet and one cubic yard of fill per linear foot below the high-water mark, and that shoreline erosion control on the Great Lakes often also needs a state DNR permit.

A new project may change the lakefront's look. The Kenosha News reported in August 2026 that a developer has proposed a 108-unit apartment building on a vacant 5-acre site at 743-745 Sheridan Road, with a beach pathway and viewing pavilion. It was at the plan-commission stage.

For a lakefront parcel I would want three things before an offer: a recent bluff survey from a coastal engineer, the setback of the house from the bluff edge, and any permits for existing shore protection. Those decide what the frontage is worth more than the view does.

Somers has been one of the faster-rising markets in Kenosha County. Zillow's typical home value for Somers was $390,384 in August 2026, up 10.1% from $354,682 a year earlier and 17.0% over two years. Kenosha County as a whole was $337,519, up about 6.9%. Nearby, the City of Kenosha was $284,850 and the Village of Pleasant Prairie $469,914 in the same month.

The ZIP code view is lower, because the ZIPs mix Somers with the City of Kenosha and Racine. For ZIP 53144, which Zillow labels Somers, the mid-tier index was $334,800 in August 2026, up 7.9%, and the top-tier index, the most expensive third of homes, was $497,375.

Actual sales are few. Redfin's public monthly data counts 69 Somers sales in the 12 months through May 2026, against 78 the year before. Monthly medians ran from $252,500 in January 2026, on a single sale, to $500,000 in June 2025, on three. In May 2026 the median was $459,950 on six sales, with a median of 37 days on market and homes selling at about 98% of list price.

The statewide backdrop matters. The Center Square reported on September 24, 2026 that the Wisconsin Realtors Association's August 2026 report showed a statewide median of $362,000, up 7.1% in a year, a southeast Wisconsin median of $387,000, and 4.4 months of supply.

New lots are part of the supply. Coldwell Banker's October 5, 2026 page showed more than a dozen lots on Willow Creek Court listed between $139,500 and $164,990 for sites of about a quarter to four-tenths of an acre. Add a builder's price for the house and that sets the floor for new construction in the village.

How I'd price here: Somers competes with Pleasant Prairie to the south and Mount Pleasant and Caledonia in Racine County to the north, and with the City of Kenosha on price. Zillow estimates every home; Redfin reports what sold in a month. With fewer than ten sales most months, comparable sales on the same side of Green Bay Road matter more than either.

Wisconsin property tax uses different words from Illinois. The local assessor sets an assessed value. The Department of Revenue separately sets a full (equalized) value for each municipality, and the ratio between the two is the assessment level. Tax rates are quoted in mills, dollars per $1,000 of assessed value. Somers contracts with Associated Appraisal Consultants for assessments in both the village and the town, per the village's assessment page.

The cleanest comparison is the DOR's full-value rate. The 2025 Town, Village and City Taxes report puts the Village of Somers at an assessment level of 0.97, a gross rate of 1.296% of full value, and an effective rate of 1.219% after the state school levy credit. The Town of Somers is at 0.93, with a gross rate of 1.171% and an effective rate of 1.059%. For comparison, the same report gives the City of Kenosha an effective rate of 1.543% and the Village of Pleasant Prairie 1.220%.

The village rate is an average of two school systems. DOR's school-district tables show most of the village's taxable value, $1.111 billion, in the Kenosha Unified School District, and $87.1 million in the Paris J1 elementary district and the Westosha Central union high school district on the west side. The DOR notes that when more than one school district serves a municipality, its rates are averages, so a parcel's actual rate can be higher or lower. The town is entirely in Kenosha Unified.

A worked example. On a $390,000 primary residence in the village, the 1.219% effective rate gives about $4,754 a year before the lottery and gaming credit. The DOR's 2025 lottery credit report says that credit applies only to a primary residence and is calculated as a $27,000 credit value times the school tax rate, with a statewide average of $190 for 2025-26. With a credit of that size, the bill would be roughly $4,560, or about 1.17% of price. A second home gets no lottery credit. The same house in the town, at 1.059%, would be about $4,130 before credits.

Bills come out around December 15. The village's tax page says the first installment or full payment is due to Somers by January 31, and the second installment to the Kenosha County Treasurer by July 31.

Two more costs. Wisconsin's real estate transfer fee is $0.30 per $100 of value, customarily paid by the seller. And a new water main can bring a special assessment: the village's water-main page posts an engineer's report for special assessments on the 2026 Highway E extension. This is general information, not tax advice. Your bill depends on your parcel, school district, credits and the assessor.

Somers adopted Kenosha County's rulebook rather than writing its own. The village's zoning page, updated in July 2026, says its general zoning and shoreland/floodplain ordinance is substantively identical to the county's, and that Kenosha County's Department of Planning and Development provides the village's floodplain, shoreland, wetland and zoning services, including permits and enforcement. In practice, zoning questions about a Somers parcel go to the county planner assigned to the village.

Shoreland rules apply near the lake, the Pike River and Pike Creek. Wisconsin's minimum standards in NR 115.05 cover land within 1,000 feet of a lake and 300 feet of a river or stream. They require a 75-foot setback from the ordinary high-water mark to a building, a vegetative buffer at least 35 feet deep where clearing is restricted, and a baseline 15% limit on impervious surface. New lots without sewer must average 100 feet wide and 20,000 square feet; sewered lots 65 feet and 10,000 square feet. Lake Michigan bluff work adds the Army Corps and DNR permits described in the lakefront section.

The Pike River system is the main floodplain. The village profile counts 55 acres of surface water, 502 acres of wetlands, 2,312 acres of environmental corridors and 457 acres of woodland tied to the Pike River and Pike Creek, mostly in the east half of the village. The village's flood insurance page says Somers joined the National Flood Insurance Program effective December 9, 2019, with single-family limits of $250,000 for the building and $100,000 for contents. Flooding is a current issue, not a historic one: WISN reported on September 20, 2026 that standing water covered roads and pavilions in Petrifying Springs Park and closed part of Highway S.

For any listing near the river, the creek or the park, I'd pull the FEMA flood map and ask the seller for any flood insurance and water-in-basement history.

Utilities in Somers are a patchwork, and they are changing street by street. The village's public works page says the department maintains water and sewer systems, roads and parks for both the village and the town.

The clearest current example is 12th Street. The village's water-main page describes a municipal water extension along Highway E from the post office west to 100th Avenue, scheduled to start the first week of April 2026. Homes along it are on private wells and already pay a quarterly sewer fee. Connecting is encouraged but not required, unless the well fails: the village's compulsory hook-up ordinance then requires the owner to connect at their own expense within 12 months of notice. New construction in the water utility district must connect. A homeowner who connects can keep a working well for irrigation only, subject to DNR inspection every five years, or pay to have it sealed.

That is the pattern I'd expect across the older parts of Somers: a well with village sewer, or a well and septic, until a main reaches the street. On any listing I'd ask for the water bill or the well test, and whether a special assessment for a new main is pending.

Electricity and natural gas come from We Energies, per the village profile. Village Hall is at 7511 12th Street.

Most of Somers is in the Kenosha Unified School District, a K-12 district, but the western edge of the village is in the Wisconsin split system Illinois buyers often haven't seen: a K-8 district feeding a separate union high school. DOR's 2025 school-district tables put $1.111 billion of village value in Kenosha Unified and $87.1 million in Paris J1 and the Westosha Central union high school district.

Kenosha Unified is a large district. In the DPI's 2024-25 report card data it enrolled 18,315." The village's Somers Elementary page says the school opened September 17, 1962 after four rural districts consolidated, and joined what became Kenosha Unified in 1965 and 1967.

The village profile lists these Kenosha Unified assignments for Somers: Somers Elementary, with the eastern part of the village assigned to Roosevelt Elementary; Washington Middle for the eastern part and Bullen Middle for the western part; and Bradford High for all of Somers. The profile's text dates largely from 2015, so I treat those assignments as a starting point only.

On the west side, Paris J1 runs one school, Paris Elementary (K-8), with 251 enrolled. Its high school is Central High in Salem, Westosha Central's single school, with 1,309 enrolled.

Assignment follows the parcel and the district's current boundary map, not the mailing address or an old village page. Confirm every address with the district before counting on a school.

Two college campuses shape the east side of Somers as land uses, and both open parts of their grounds and buildings to the public.

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is inside the village; the Census geocoder places its 900 Wood Road address in the Village of Somers. The village's UW-Parkside page describes a campus of about 700 acres with restored prairie, oak and maple woods and nature trails along Pike Creek, built between 1967 and 1976. Wikipedia's history says the legislature authorized the campus in 1965, a site committee chose a 690-acre parcel near Petrifying Springs Park in April 1966, and the first classes were held in the fall of 1969. The name "Parkside" was chosen in 1966 partly to avoid "Petrifying Springs Campus."

For a homeowner nearby, the campus works as a public amenity. The village page lists the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities, known as "The Rita," with a visiting-artist series; a Sports and Activity Center with an indoor track, courts and a 25-yard pool available by membership; and free access to a disc golf course, the Anna Maria Williams Nature Trail and cross-country trails. The page also says the campus has access to about 300 more acres in Petrifying Springs Park next door.

Carthage College sits on the Lake Michigan shore just south of the village. The 2005 boundary line runs around the north edge of its campus, and the Census geocoder places its 2001 Alford Park Drive address in the City of Kenosha. Wikipedia says it is a private college founded in 1847, that its Kenosha lakeshore campus was dedicated on October 14, 1962, and that it enrolled a record 3,036 in fall 2025. The village's Carthage page describes the lakefront campus as an arboretum and wildlife sanctuary and notes a free-admission art gallery and a theater program open to the public.

For a buyer, the practical effects are heavier traffic on Wood Road and Highway E during the academic year and two large blocks of campus land next to the county park. I'd look at the street, not just the house, on any listing within a mile of either campus.

Petrifying Springs Park is Somers' signature public land. It is a Kenosha County park at 5555 7th Street, which the Census geocoder places in the Village of Somers. A January 2026 travel feature describes about 350 acres of hardwood forest with a paved loop of just under 2.5 miles, a roughly 3-mile trail on both sides of the Pike River, a lighted sledding hill, a dog park and a beer garden. The village's UW-Parkside page puts the park at about 300 acres. I'd treat the size as approximate until the county confirms it.

The park's beer garden is on a long lease. The Kenosha News reported in August 2026 that Kenosha County signed a new 10-year operating agreement with the Petrifying Springs Biergarten and opened two new playgrounds in the park. One local landmark has a practical explanation: the Kenosha.com column on the park's "Witch's House" says the stone-and-wood building was put up in the 1930s to house golf course irrigation pumps and is now part of a picnic pavilion.

Golf is part of the park and the village. The village's golf page lists two courses in Somers: Petrifying Springs Golf Course and Kenosha Country Club. A third, Maplecrest Country Club, was sold in 2025 and is being redeveloped for housing.

Beyond the park, the village profile notes two off-street bicycle paths through Somers, and Hawthorn Hollow, a nature sanctuary and arboretum, sits on Green Bay Road south of Highway A. The Lake Michigan shore is mostly private bluff in Somers, so beach time usually means a drive to Kenosha's or Racine's public lakefront parks.

Somers sits between two interstates of travel: I-94 on its western edge and Sheridan Road (Highway 32) on the lake. Green Bay Road (Highway 31) runs north-south through the middle, and Highways E, KR, S, A and 142 cross east to west. The village profile notes interchanges at Highway 142/S, Highway E and Highway KR along I-94.

I ran free-flow routes on the OSRM routing engine, which uses OpenStreetMap roads and no traffic, from Village Hall at 7511 12th Street on October 5, 2026. Treat these as best-case estimates.

From Somers Village Hall, Vernon Hills is about 35 road miles and 46 minutes. Downtown Chicago is about 62 miles and 79 minutes. O'Hare is about 58 miles, and the router gave about 90 minutes. Downtown Milwaukee is about 32 miles and 42 minutes, and Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport about 26 miles and 33 minutes. Downtown Racine is about 11 miles and 20 minutes, and Lake Geneva about 33 miles and 51 minutes.

The useful point for Lake County, Illinois buyers is that Somers is a straight run up I-94 or Green Bay Road, so it is closer to Milwaukee than most Illinois suburbs and about as close to Vernon Hills as much of McHenry County. Rush-hour traffic on I-94 and the Illinois tollway adds real time to these numbers, and the O'Hare figure in particular deserves a check against live traffic.

Somers has rail lines but no station of its own. The village profile notes that Amtrak runs on the Canadian Pacific tracks through the middle of the village. Two stations are close.

The Metra Union Pacific North line ends at Kenosha, about 7.8 road miles and 15 minutes from Village Hall on the same free-flow router. In Metra's GTFS schedule data for the week of October 12, 2026, Kenosha has 10 weekday trains to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and 9 back, with the first inbound departure at 4:43 a.m. and morning departures at 6:08, 6:38 and 7:08. Rides take 92 or 102 minutes. On Saturday and Sunday there are 8 trains each way, at 102 minutes.

Amtrak's Hiawatha stops at Sturtevant, about 6.5 road miles and 13 minutes north of Village Hall. In Amtrak's published schedule feed for the same week, the Sturtevant station has 6 weekday Hiawatha trains toward Chicago Union Station, the first at 7:43 a.m., with rides of 76 to 84 minutes, and 6 toward Milwaukee. The Borealis adds one train each way daily. Weekend Hiawatha service is 5 to 6 trains each way.

Put plainly, a Somers to Loop trip by train is about two hours door to door on a good morning. The Hiawatha is faster on the rail portion and goes to Union Station; Metra runs more trains and goes to Ogilvie. For a five-day downtown commute, run the full door-to-door number before you fall for a house.

Somers is in the middle of a build-out, and the I-94 corridor is where it started. The village profile says Somers had more than 10,000 acres of farmland, about 59% of its area, and that all of it except the northwest corner is expected to move to urban uses over 35 years. First Park 94, the village's first industrial park, broke ground in August 2015 on 309 acres northeast of Highway H and 38th Street, sized for about 4.6 million square feet. BizTimes reported in December 2016 that Ariens leased its first 600,000-square-foot building.

The pipeline is still full in 2026. The Kenosha News reported on September 3, 2026 that Stream Realty Partners revised its Somers Business Park plan to a 613,308-square-foot building and a 307,820-square-foot building on 90.5 acres north of Burlington Road. BizTimes reported in March 2026 that Truck Country bought 49 acres at 1914 120th Avenue along I-94 for $3.3 million for a dealership with about 100 jobs. Near I-94 and Somers Road, a 25-acre Somers Gateway Center was approved in July 2024 with a 107-room hotel, restaurants and a fuel station, per BizTimes.

Tax increment financing pays for much of it. DOR's 2025 report counts 10 tax increment districts in the village, and the difference between the village's $1.739 billion full value and the $1.198 billion its school districts tax, about $541 million, is roughly the value captured inside those districts. The village's Joint Review Board meets October 13, 2026 to review the districts' annual reports. For a buyer, TIDs fund roads and utilities now and return value to the general tax base when they close.

Housing is the second wave. BizTimes reported that Maplecrest Country Club's 162 acres at 9401 18th Street sold for $3.25 million in July 2025 to a developer planning 302 single-family and duplex units, and the Kenosha News reported in September 2026 that the DNR was taking comment on its wetlands permits. Bear Development's Willow Creek, southwest of 12th Street and Green Bay Road, was planned at 33 single-family homes and 32 duplexes, per BizTimes. The Kenosha News reported in May 2026 that the second phase of Savannah at Pike Creek, a 336-unit townhome development, is expected to finish in 2027.

Two larger projects sit just outside the line. Invenergy has applied to the state Public Service Commission for a 1,210-megawatt gas turbine plant, Red Oak Ridge, on land now in the Town of Paris within the village's and Kenosha's growth areas; the village's project page says the land would transfer to the village or city under a 2017 agreement if it is approved. North of Somers in Racine County, WPR reported on September 29, 2026 that Microsoft's first Mount Pleasant data center is operational.

The village's police page says the Village and Town of Somers receive police service from the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department. Fire and ambulance service come from the village's own Somers Fire & Rescue, which has served the area since 1934 with full-time and paid-on-call staff. Staffing is a live budget issue: TMJ4 reported that on April 7, 2026 voters rejected a $1.3 million levy increase for eight more firefighter-paramedics, 1,417 to 920, after the department logged a record 1,778 calls in 2025, and that the village holds a federal SAFER grant that partly funds those positions. I don't characterize the safety of any town or neighborhood. Anyone who wants the data can ask the Sheriff's Department or look up its reported figures on the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

The trade-offs are concrete. The lakefront is a bluff, not a beach, and it has a history of erosion, so frontage carries engineering and permit questions. The address is confusing: 14 ZIP codes, and a mailing city that is often Kenosha or Racine. Utilities vary by street, with wells still common in the older areas. The village is growing fast, so the farm field behind a house today may be a business park or a subdivision in a few years, and the development section is worth reading parcel by parcel. Schools split between Kenosha Unified and the Paris J1/Westosha Central system. And if you are in the remnant Town of Somers, the 2005 boundary agreement shapes what your parcel becomes.

I'd pull the tax bill first and confirm the municipality, school district and utility for the exact parcel before falling for a house.