Oconee Farms, Lake Oconee | Neighborhood Guide
There is nothing else quite like Oconee Farms on Lake Oconee, and the drive in is most of the reason why. You turn off Highway 278 onto Bill Duvall Road, then onto Shady Oaks Lane, and for the next few minutes you are not at a lake at all. You are driving through working pasture. Cattle on both sides of the road, farm ponds close enough on either hand that the road runs straight between them, open field rolling away to the treeline. It looks and feels more like the foothills of Virginia than anything else in this part of Georgia.
Then the fields end, there is a stacked stone sign on the left, and you turn into eighteen waterfront lots on a hilly wooded road that runs parallel to the water.
Quick Facts
| County / city | Greene County — Greensboro, GA 30642 |
| Streets | Oconee Farms Road is the only road in the neighborhood |
| Getting there | Highway 278 to Bill Duvall Road, then Shady Oaks Lane, then left into Oconee Farms |
| Time to grocery | About 15 minutes to Ingles in Greensboro, or about 15 minutes to Madison |
| Gated | No |
| HOA | HOA/POA is unknown |
| Water access | All 18 lots are waterfront with private access. |
| Lots | Most are two acres and larger |
| Schools | Greene County School System, with eligibility to apply to Lake Oconee Academy by lottery |
Where Oconee Farms Is on Lake Oconee
Oconee Farms sits at the north end of Lake Oconee in Greene County, on the stretch where the Oconee River stops being a river and starts being the lake. Properties here are described in listings as river frontage, and technically that is right, but this is the point where the channel is beginning to widen into open water. It is part of the broader Northern Greene County and Upper Lake area.
The Drive In Through Duvall Farmland
Bill Duvall Road is named for the family whose land you drive through to get here, and the Duvalls are not a small agricultural family. Vincent “Zippy” Duvall has been president of the American Farm Bureau Federation since 2016 and was president of the Georgia Farm Bureau for nine years before that. He is a third-generation Greene County farmer running cattle and broilers on land his family has held for more than ninety years, and he served as chairman of the Greene County Board of Commissioners. The pasture you pass through on the way to Oconee Farms is his.
That matters to a buyer for a practical reason as well as a scenic one. The strip of land on the other side of Oconee Farms Road is Duvall farmland, not building lots. What is across the road from you is a working farm owned by a family that has been farming here for three generations, which is a different kind of assurance than a covenant.
Homes in the Oconee Farms Subdivision
Eighteen waterfront lots, one road, and a wide spread of what is sitting on them. Looking down the driveways you can see what looks like an old tin fishing cabin on one lot and a newly built seven-figure house on the next. Homes from the mid 1990s to brand new sit on lots roughly two to five acres, which is much larger than the lots in most Lake Oconee neighborhoods.
The land itself is steep in places. The road runs along a hill and some of the drives drop a long way down toward the water.
Depth varies, and at the upper end of the lake it can be shallow right at the shoreline before dropping off a short distance out, so the dock question here is a specific one rather than a general one. And at least one parcel carries a Georgia Power contour easement with an access strip lease attached, which is normal on this part of the lake but is the sort of detail you want understood before closing rather than after.
Sunrise Instead of Sunset
A lot of neighborhoods on Lake Oconee sell the sunset. Oconee Farms faces the other way. Sunrise views over the water where people are up early with coffee on the back porch is both the marketing line and a fact of life.
Frequently Asked Questions About Oconee Farms
Where is Oconee Farms on Lake Oconee?
Oconee Farms is a small waterfront subdivision at the north end of Lake Oconee in Greene County, Georgia, with a Greensboro 30642 address. You reach it from Highway 278 by turning onto Bill Duvall Road, then Shady Oaks Lane, then left into the neighborhood. Oconee Farms Road is the only street. It is the farthest neighborhood north on this side of the lake — the next one back toward Greensboro is Indian Woods.
How many homes are in Oconee Farms?
Eighteen lots, all of them waterfront. The land on the other side of Oconee Farms Road is Duvall farmland rather than home sites, so the neighborhood is one road with water on one side of it.
Is Oconee Farms on the lake or the river?
Both descriptions turn up in listings, and neither is wrong. Oconee Farms sits where the Oconee River widens into Lake Oconee, so the water in front of these houses is river frontage on paper and open lake in practice.
Does Oconee Farms have an HOA?
No association is reported in the listing record for this neighborhood. That is unusual enough on Lake Oconee to be worth confirming for any specific property you are considering.
Is Oconee Farms gated?
No. The neighborhood itself is not gated. Oconee Farms Road ends at a gated private farm estate, but that is a separate property rather than part of the subdivision.
How often do homes sell in Oconee Farms?
Rarely, and a search for Oconee Farms Lake Oconee turns up very little for the same reason. Only a handful of properties here have ever come to market, and long stretches pass with nothing available. In a neighborhood of eighteen lots, one sale is a meaningful share of the whole place.
What is my home in Oconee Farms worth?
More than the square footage suggests, and the reason is the land. Oconee Farms lots run to several acres where most Lake Oconee neighborhoods are measured in fractions of one, which means acreage, frontage and how the ground falls toward the water carry the value here in a way they do not elsewhere on this lake. The spread in what is built on those lots is wide — original fishing cabins and recent seven-figure construction sit within sight of each other — so two Oconee Farms properties at similar acreage can be entirely different propositions. With so few recorded sales, an automated estimate has almost nothing to work from. Contact Margie for a valuation of your Lake Oconee home.
Have home values in Oconee Farms gone up?
Sharply, on the evidence available. One Oconee Farms house sold as an estate sale needing work in 2023 and, after a full renovation, is on the market now at more than double that figure. The sample is small enough that no one should read a trend into it, but the direction is not in doubt, and the scarcity is part of the reason — eighteen lots that cannot be added to, on a road you reach by driving through an actual working farm.
Interested in Oconee Farms?
Oconee Farms almost never has anything for sale, and when it does the question is usually how much of the value is in the house and how much is in the land and the frontage. Margie Sorrell knows this end of the lake and is actually related to the Duvall family. Get in touch and she will tell you honestly what you are looking at.
Last updated September 2026.