Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s House

NASCAR driver who won the Daytona 500 in 2004 and 2014 and was voted the sport’s Most Popular Driver 15 times. He raced Cup cars from 1999 to 2017 and is in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Iredell County’s tax roll lists 38 parcels here, about 320 acres, under his trust, a holding company, and his own name. USA Today counted 140 acres in 2009; the deeds run from August 2002 to January 2026.

The county dates the main house to 2008, on a tract deeded to his trust in March 2005. USA Today called it a modular farmhouse in 2009, “executive-worthy but far from lavish,” and said it predated his purchase.

The mailing address says Mooresville, but the county taxes the land as unincorporated, with no town levy. The Salisbury Post, relaying USA Today in 2009, placed it “somewhere between Mooresville and Cleveland.”

The replica Western town has a saloon, a jail with 2 working cells, and a church with a 75-foot steeple. USA Today reported 18 go-karts in a vintage service station and a 6-hole golf course in 2009.

As Fox Sports tells it, he saw a 60 Minutes segment on Willie Nelson’s Western town and had his own, Whisky River, 8 months to a year later. Wrangler shot commercials at the property’s dirt go-kart track.

More than 75 wrecked race cars sit in the woods, carried in by forklift. In May 2019 he said one car took him a year to find: his property manager never tells him where new ones go.