Home inspection in Ellston.

Why Ellston homes need a local read.

Ellston is a very small Ringgold County town that began as Wirt in 1881 and became Ellston in 1895, with a Humeston & Shenandoah Railroad station opened in March 1882. We calibrate every Ellston inspection to the conditions that actually drive defects here — not a generic national checklist.

Ellston housing runs to houses from the railroad years after 1882 and the early-1900s boom, built toward the town's 1900 peak of 242 residents, plus a few later homes, across the compact townsite beside the old Dragoon Trace route and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Ringgold County.

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Ellston homes are inspected by a local partner in our Iowa network.  ·  Call or text (563) 517-7815

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