Land Clearing in Elgin, TX

Elgin is about ten miles east of Manor on US‑290, where Travis County becomes Bastrop County and the blackland starts giving way to sandier ground. You can see the change in the brush. Manor is mostly mesquite, Elgin is mostly yaupon with mesquite and cedar mixed in, and south of town toward Bastrop the loblolly pines start standing over all of it.

Most Elgin calls are pasture reclamation. A tract that ran cattle twenty years ago has grown a yaupon understory so thick you cannot see across it, and the owner wants grass back. That is mulcher work, slower per acre than open mesquite because there are more stems, and the result is a tract you can graze after the first flush.

The second call is the fence line. Elgin acreage has older cross fencing than Manor and it is buried in greenbrier. That job is on its own page. Overgrown fence line →

Jurisdiction here is Bastrop County for most tracts and Travis on the northwest edge, plus Elgin city limits and ETJ. We ask which before we quote because it affects burn rules, though our default is no burn at all.

South and east of Elgin toward Bastrop the loblolly pines start. They are trees we keep. Clearing cedar and yaupon under pines is slower work because the understory goes and the pines stay. Bastrop has its own page; Cedar Creek is on the east metro service area. Bastrop, TX →

Same day rate logic as Manor: density, access, wet clay, and mulch versus haul. Yaupon thickets are slower per acre than open mesquite. Expect an Elgin acre to take more of a day than a Manor acre.

Google's AI Overview on Aug 24, 2026 showed $2,500 to $3,600 per day for land and lot clearing and up to $4,500 per day for forestry mulching on Manor searches. That is the search result, not our card. Full cost guide, permits, and burn rules →