1.What Jorde Farms Actually Is, and Why Three Signs Say It
The name comes from a Town of Queen Creek rezoning case. Case P19-0088, carried on the Town’s record as Ordinance 756-21, is the “Jorde Farms South PAD” rezone of roughly 747 acres, filed by Sean Lake of Pew and Lake, PLC on behalf of the property owner — the Jorde family land the case is named for. The Town describes the area in its own words as “generally east and west of the future Crismon Road alignment, north of Empire Road, west of Signal Butte Road, and south of Cloud Road.” The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval 6-1 on May 12, 2021, before a single house was built here.
What that case did is unusually legible. It converted a patchwork of Queen Creek R1-43 and Maricopa County RU-43 zoning — agricultural-scale categories with one-acre minimums — into a mix of much smaller residential districts running down to R1-5, plus a C-2 commercial pocket. That is the farmland-to-subdivision conversion in a single case file, covering roughly 747 acres that the Town locates by a boundary description rather than by a street address. The only date on that record we could verify is the Planning and Zoning Commission’s 6-1 recommendation of May 12, 2021; the Town Council’s adoption date for Ordinance 756-21 is not confirmed.
One rezone, however, does not make one community. Three separately marketed sub-communities now carry the name: Pulte’s Jorde Farms on 214th Street, and Shea Homes’ Acclaim at Jorde Farms and Ascent at Jorde Farms on Seagull Drive. They have different plans, different prices, different amenity wording, and — on the public record — only partly confirmed common governance. That fragmentation is the normal end state of a large Queen Creek rezone, and you can see the same pattern at Harvest and across the town’s active builder roster.
There is no confirmed master developer of record. The Town’s rezoning case names only the applicant and legal representative, Sean Lake of Pew and Lake, PLC, acting for the property owner. No master-developer company name could be verified for Jorde Farms. If a listing or a brochure names one, ask for the document it came from.
2.How Many Lots Are in Jorde Farms? Two Phase Systems, Two Answers
This is the single easiest fact to get wrong about Jorde Farms, and the reason is structural: the Town of Queen Creek and the Maricopa County Assessor both use the word “Phase” here, for different things, in different filing systems, and nobody has reconciled them. A “Phase 2” figure you find online could be either one.
On the Town side, Jorde Farms North is a Shea Homes platting case at the southwest corner of Germann and Crismon roads, totaling 401 lots at buildout across two phases — about 225 in the first and 176 on roughly 37.9 acres in the second, whose final plat the Town Council approved on September 21, 2022, per contemporaneous local reporting of that meeting. On the Assessor side, there is no plat literally named North or South: there is JORDE FARMS PHASE 1 and JORDE FARMS PHASE 2, and between them they hold 440 unique parcels.
| Record system | What it is called there | The count it gives | What that count is actually counting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Queen Creek, platting case | Jorde Farms North, Phase 1 | About 225 lots | Shea Homes residential lots at buildout, southwest corner of Germann and Crismon |
| Town of Queen Creek, platting case | Jorde Farms North, Phase 2 | 176 lots on ~37.9 acres | Final plat approved by Town Council, September 21, 2022 |
| Town of Queen Creek, rezoning case | Jorde Farms South PAD | ~747 acres, no lot count | The zoning envelope, Case P19-0088 / Ordinance 756-21 — an area, not a subdivision |
| Maricopa County Assessor, recorded plat | JORDE FARMS PHASE 1 | 250 unique parcels | 216 built residential + 9 vacant residential + 25 common-area tracts |
| Maricopa County Assessor, recorded plat | JORDE FARMS PHASE 2 | 190 unique parcels | 146 built residential + 30 vacant undetermined + 14 common-area tracts |
The 440 total is our own count of the Assessor’s two subdivision exports, deduplicated by parcel number, and it cross-checks cleanly: each sampled parcel-detail page carries its own “Subdivision (N Parcels)” field, reading 250 for Phase 1 and 190 for Phase 2, matching exactly. Do not read the Assessor’s CSV export header. It reported 255 for Phase 1 against 250 actual, and 251 for Phase 2 against 190 actual — a 61-row overcount — because the export repeats rows. The same defect has already shown up at The Pecans and, notably, not at Sossaman Estates, where all ten exports matched their deduplicated counts.
The practical rule: never put a Town lot count and an Assessor parcel count in the same sentence as if they measured the same thing. The Town’s 401 counts Shea’s residential lots in one platting case, per local reporting of the Council action. Our 440 counts every parcel on the Assessor’s two recorded plats, including 39 common-area tracts, 9 parcels carried as vacant residential and 30 carried as vacant land of undetermined type — a classification that is not a residential lot count and is never added to one.
3.Who Is Building Here, and What Do Homes Start At?
Two builders were selling at Jorde Farms when their pages were read on September 22, 2026. Pulte publishes four plans; Shea publishes four plans at Acclaim and has closed out Ascent. Every price below is a builder’s own “starting from” base figure on that date — the number before lot premium, elevation, structural options and design-center selections, and the number that moves most often.
| Builder and community | Plan | Size | Baths | Base price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shea Homes — Acclaim at Jorde Farms | Four plans (range) | 1,968–2,648 sq ft | Not published as a range | $496,990–$551,990 |
| Pulte — Jorde Farms | Barletta | 1,992 sq ft | 2 | $536,990 |
| Pulte — Jorde Farms | Avelino | 2,432 sq ft | 3 | $572,990 |
| Pulte — Jorde Farms | Prato | 2,830 sq ft | 2–3 | $610,990 |
| Pulte — Jorde Farms | Casoria | 3,344 sq ft | 3–5 | $651,990 |
| Shea Homes — Ascent at Jorde Farms | Sold out | About 2,185–3,062 sq ft | Not published | Sold out as of Sept. 22, 2026 |
Two things about that table are worth saying plainly. First, base is not the closing number. Pulte’s Queen Creek community roster put the Jorde Farms range at roughly $530,000 to $770,000 when it was read on September 20, 2026, against the $536,990 to $651,990 base band on the community page two days later. Both are Pulte figures; they differ by source page and reading date, and no source explains the gap. Second, a widely circulated top price of $712,990 for Jorde Farms appears only on third-party aggregators; it exceeds every base price on the builder’s own site and could not be confirmed on any builder page, so this guide does not publish it as a base price.
Shea’s Acclaim page reported two separate counts on September 22, 2026: five quick move-in homes and four floor plans. It does not say the five homes cover all four plans, and quick move-in counts change often, so treat that as a snapshot rather than an inventory level. Shea also publishes Acclaim as a range only — four plans between 1,968 and 2,648 square feet at $496,990 to $551,990, with no plan name, bedroom count or per-plan price — so its homes cannot be lined up against Pulte’s plan table one for one. Pulte’s Jorde Farms sales office is at 19348 S 214th Street, Queen Creek, AZ 85142, (480) 531-5848; Shea’s Acclaim and Ascent addresses are 21238 and 21262 E Seagull Drive.
Jorde Farms is not a 55+ or age-restricted community. Pulte’s community page carries a “Del Webb lifestyle” line inside a generic scheduling module that Pulte reuses across community templates regardless of community type. The homes actually sold here — Barletta through Casoria, published at two to five baths, with only the Prato listed at up to five bedrooms — are standard family plans. Del Webb, Pulte’s active-adult brand, has no Queen Creek community at all. If age-restricted living is what you want, start with our guide to Queen Creek’s 55+ options.
4.HOA Dues, the Association Name and the Gap on the Pulte Side
Both Shea Homes pages publish the same figure: $143 a month, attributed on the Ascent page to “the Jorde Farms Homeowners Association.” Two independent builder pages agreeing on a name and a number is reasonable evidence that the Shea-built portion of Jorde Farms shares one association. It is not evidence about the rest of it.
Pulte’s Jorde Farms page states no HOA name and no dues figure, and nothing else in the public record confirms whether Pulte’s homes pay into that same association or a separate one. That is a real gap, not a rounding error: the dues are a fixed monthly carrying cost for as long as you own the house, and the association is the body whose CC&Rs govern the lot. No Jorde Farms CC&Rs were verified for this page, so what those documents restrict here is not something we can tell you. Ask the builder for the association’s legal name, its management company, the current assessment, the transfer fee and the resale disclosure fee, in writing, for the specific lot. Our guide to Queen Creek HOA fees explains which of those Arizona law actually caps — the $400 limit covers the resale disclosure package, not a separately authorized transfer fee.
| Community | Published dues | What the source is |
|---|---|---|
| Sossaman Estates | $103 / month | Multiple agreeing real-estate listings |
| Hastings Farms (Creekside Series) | $122 / month | Builder community page, confirmed on a resale listing |
| Harvest | $120–$226 / month by phase | Listings and builder pages; the figure varies by phase |
| Jorde Farms | $143 / month | Shea Homes’ own Acclaim and Ascent pages; Pulte publishes none |
| Ellsworth Ranch | $184 / month | Three Taylor Morrison collection pages, all the same figure |
| Barney Farms | $495 / quarter ($1,980 a year) | The association’s own assessments page |
| Ironwood Crossing | $225 / month, sewer included | The association’s own FAQ, tied to a 2026 rate letter |
Notice what the right-hand column does. Only Barney Farms and Ironwood Crossing publish their dues on an association website of their own; everything else on that list, Jorde Farms included, rests on a builder page or a listing. Jorde Farms sits mid-pack at $143 — above the established Sossaman Estates and Hastings Farms figures, below Ellsworth Ranch — but it is the only community in the table where a builder actively selling homes publishes no dues figure at all.
What the dues are said to buy
The two builders describe the amenities in their own words, and the words are not identical. Shea lists a seasonally heated community pool, playground and picnic areas, and walking paths throughout the neighborhood. Pulte lists a “Community Pool”, an “Adventure Park & Playground”, and a “Trail System Throughout”. Those read like the same three things — a pool, a playground, a path network — described twice. No source confirms they are the same facilities, or that residents of one sub-community may use the other’s. That is a question for the CC&Rs, not for a marketing page.
5.Where Jorde Farms Sits: County, Town Limits and the ZIP Trap
Both sampled parcel records put Jorde Farms in Maricopa County, and both carry the Assessor’s own “Local Jurisdiction: QUEEN CREEK” field — which is the cleanest routine confirmation available that an address is inside the incorporated town rather than on county land. The Town’s own Do I Live in QC tool is the citable cross-check for any specific address, and it is worth running before you write an offer.
The ZIP code proves none of that. Jorde Farms mails as 85142, and 85142 is the only Queen Creek ZIP whose USPS-recommended city is actually “Queen Creek” — but by 2020 Census land area it is about two-thirds Pinal County. A 85142 address can be Maricopa or Pinal, inside town limits or outside them. Here, it is the Assessor’s parcel record and the Town’s boundary tool that settle it, not the envelope. That distinction drives the property tax rate, the school district and which county office answers your questions.
The two Town case files describe two different footprints, and this page keeps them apart. The Jorde Farms South PAD rezone covers roughly 747 acres described by the Town as generally east and west of the future Crismon Road alignment, north of Empire Road, west of Signal Butte Road and south of Cloud Road. Jorde Farms North, the Shea platting case, is at the southwest corner of Germann and Crismon. Those are separate legislative records with separate geography, not a north half and a south half of one plat.
6.Schools: the District Is Confirmed, the Campus Is Not
Both sampled Jorde Farms parcel records name Queen Creek Unified School District #95 in the Assessor’s own School District field. That is a parcel-level government record, and it is the strongest school fact available for this community. Our district profile covers how QCUSD performs and how it is organized.
What that record does not tell you is which elementary, junior high or high school a specific Jorde Farms address attends. Attendance boundaries are set by the district, they move as campuses open and fill, and no subdivision is permanently tied to a campus. Confirm the assigned schools for the exact address with the district’s own boundary lookup at schoolsitelocator.com/apps/queencreek — and read our walkthrough of verifying a Queen Creek address before you rely on anything a listing says about schools.
No address in Queen Creek is “zoned to” a school. A builder’s sales sheet naming a campus is describing today’s boundary, not a commitment, and the boundary can change between contract and closing. The district’s locator is the only answer that counts, and even it is a current-year answer.
7.What a Jorde Farms Home Costs to Hold, Worked Out
Base price is the number buyers compare. The monthly obligation is the number that decides whether the house works. Jorde Farms sits in Maricopa County inside Town of Queen Creek limits, in Queen Creek Unified School District #95 — but no source we hold records a tax area code for these parcels, so the figures below are worked with the Maricopa-side worked-example rates in our property tax guide (tax area 952500, the Town of Queen Creek plus Queen Creek Unified School District #95 area on Maricopa County’s 2026 rate table), which may not be this subdivision’s area code. Those are an after-credit owner-occupied primary rate of 5.5662 and a blended secondary rate of 2.6226 per $100 of assessed value, and Arizona assesses an owner-occupied home at 10 percent of its Limited Property Value. Pull the tax area code off the Assessor’s record for the exact lot before you rely on any of it.
| Price used | Where the figure comes from | Primary tax (after-credit owner-occupied rate, 5.5662) | Secondary tax (blended, 2.6226) | Estimated annual total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $466,056 | Recorded sale, Phase 1 sample parcel, May 2023 | ≈ $2,594 | ≈ $1,222 | ≈ $3,816 |
| $519,414 | Recorded sale, Phase 2 sample parcel, February 2025 | ≈ $2,891 | ≈ $1,362 | ≈ $4,253 |
| $536,990 | Pulte Barletta base price, Sept. 22, 2026 | ≈ $2,989 | ≈ $1,408 | ≈ $4,397 |
| $651,990 | Pulte Casoria base price, Sept. 22, 2026 | ≈ $3,629 | ≈ $1,710 | ≈ $5,339 |
Read that table with its assumption showing: it treats the price as this year’s Full Cash Value and assumes Limited Property Value equals it, which is the newly built or newly reset case. A home held for several years usually carries an LPV below its Full Cash Value, because Arizona caps LPV growth at 5 percent a year, so its real bill runs lower. The full mechanics, including the homeowner rebate already netted into that 5.5662 rate, are in our Queen Creek property tax breakdown.
Add the association. At $143 a month, the published Shea-side dues are $1,716 a year — our arithmetic on the builders’ figure. On a Barletta at base, that is roughly $4,397 in estimated property tax plus $1,716 in dues before a mortgage payment, insurance or a utility bill. For the rest of the monthly picture, including Town water, sewer and trash, see the Queen Creek cost of living guide.
8.What We Could Not Verify, and Exactly Where to Check It
Five things about Jorde Farms are commonly stated online that our research could not confirm from a primary source. They are listed here with the place to check each one, because a documented gap is more useful than a confident guess.
| Claim you will see | Status | Where to get the real answer |
|---|---|---|
| A named master developer for Jorde Farms | Not confirmed — the Town case names only applicant Sean Lake of Pew and Lake, PLC, for the property owner | The Town’s legislative record for Case P19-0088 / Ordinance 756-21 |
| The Town Council date that adopted Ordinance 756-21 | Not confirmed — only the Planning and Zoning Commission’s 6-1 recommendation of May 12, 2021 is verified | Town of Queen Creek Clerk or the legislative portal for the ordinance |
| The year a specific Jorde Farms home was built | Not obtainable — the Assessor’s Year Built and Living Area fields load by script and return empty to a plain fetch | The Assessor’s parcel page in a browser, or the builder’s closing documents |
| Jorde family farm history beyond the case name | Not confirmed — no local history, historical society or Town preservation source naming the family’s farming was found | Town of Queen Creek historical resources; treat online versions as unsourced |
| A single HOA covering all of Jorde Farms | Not confirmed — only the Shea-built portion’s association name and $143 dues are on the record | The CC&Rs and resale disclosure package for the specific lot |
One more, on the sales price you will see quoted: the $712,990 top figure that circulates for Jorde Farms comes from an aggregator synthesis, not a builder page, and it sits above every base price Pulte publishes. It most likely reflects a fully optioned or quick move-in listing. Treat any price you did not read on pulte.com or sheahomes.com as a listing price, and ask what options it includes.
9.A Before-You-Offer Checklist for Jorde Farms
- Identify which community the lot is in — Pulte’s Jorde Farms on 214th Street, or Shea’s Acclaim or Ascent on Seagull Drive. The plan, the price and possibly the association all follow from that answer.
- Get the association name and the current assessment in writing. $143 a month is Shea’s published figure. Nothing confirms it applies to a Pulte home, and nothing published confirms who manages the association.
- Ask for the full fee schedule, not just the dues — the resale disclosure fee, the rush and update fees, and the separately authorized transfer fee, which Arizona does not cap the way it caps the disclosure package.
- Pull the parcel record for the exact lot on the Maricopa County Assessor’s site, and read its lot size, plat reference and tax area code yourself. The two sampled parcels here were 5,000 and 5,250 square feet.
- Run the address through the Town’s Do I Live in QC tool, so town limits and county are confirmed for that parcel rather than inferred from the 85142 ZIP.
- Run the address through the district’s school locator at schoolsitelocator.com/apps/queencreek and ask QCUSD to confirm, rather than relying on the campus named on a sales sheet.
- Budget the base price plus options, plus the estimated tax from the worked table above, plus the dues — $143 a month ($1,716 a year) applies to Shea’s Acclaim and Ascent only; Pulte’s dues are unpublished — and ask the lender to quote the payment on the option-loaded contract price, not the base.
- If a large lot matters, walk one first. The two Assessor parcels we sampled measured 5,250 square feet in Phase 1 and 5,000 square feet in Phase 2 — two samples, not a plat-wide lot size. If that is smaller than you pictured, compare against the acre-scale communities in our neighborhood rundown before you commit.