Living in Jedora Estates

Jedora Estates sits on St. George's east side, with streets from about 2540 South to 2710 South near 2000 East. That puts it in the wider Little Valley area, a part of town that grew up in the 2000s. It lies just east of River Road, with the Washington Fields farmland in Washington City to the northeast and the newer Crimson Cliffs development to the east. It feels like a settled, single-family neighborhood, not a strip of shops and businesses. The plats were recorded in three phases, between January 2004 and May 2005, so the neighborhood has had two decades to grow into its trees and hedges.

The county recorded the three phases out of numeric order: Phase 1 first, then Phase 3, then Phase 2. That means the phase number alone does not tell you when a lot was built, but it does tell you which section of the plat a home sits in, and that matters more than most buyers assume when you start comparing one Jedora Estates sale to another.

Day to day, this is not a walk-to-everything location. You drive a few minutes for errands, mostly along River Road and the Mall Drive shopping strip. In exchange, you get bigger lots than in the older, closer-in St. George subdivisions, and the streets feel roomy, not packed tight.

Jedora Estates is a single-family subdivision, so there is no mix of attached homes to sort through. The homes are mostly ramblers (one-story homes) and two-story plans from the mid-2000s. The lots run larger than in St. George's older, closer-in subdivisions, and that extra lot size is one of the more concrete advantages you can check. Several parcels have the space for RV or boat parking. Street setbacks (how far a home sits back from the street) look more generous here. The streets built closer to downtown by big builders (builders who build many homes from a few plans) are tighter.

I do not carry a fixed price figure for this page. A subdivision built in three separate phases needs recent sales of similar homes pulled from the live MLS, not a stale average. Bring me the specific address you are considering, and I can pull real, recent Jedora Estates sales. A citywide number does not know which phase you are in.

Jedora Estates is served by the Washington County School District's Desert Hills schools. That means Crimson View Elementary (grades K-5), Desert Hills Intermediate (grades 6-7), Desert Hills Middle (grades 8-9), and Desert Hills High (grades 10-12). The district's own chart of which schools students move on to shows that, in other parts of Crimson View Elementary's boundary, students go on to the Crimson Cliffs schools. That means which schools apply can depend on the exact street.

Boundaries can shift as the east side continues to grow. For any home you are serious about, check the current assignment directly with the district. Do not guess from this page. For outside school data, GreatSchools and Niche both publish numbers you can weigh yourself.

This is why Jedora Estates is worth a slower look before you compare it to a neighboring subdivision. The county recorded its three phases out of numeric order. Phase 1 was recorded in January 2004. Phase 3 followed in January 2005, a full year later, and Phase 2 was not recorded until May 2005, four months after Phase 3. That is unusual. It means the phase number stamped on a plat map does not reliably tell you which section of the neighborhood is oldest.

In practice, I do not trust "Phase 1" or "Phase 2" to tell me the build year here. I might trust it in a subdivision that was built in number order, but here I pull the actual recording date. Where I can, I also pull the permit or construction date for the specific home. Two houses with different phase numbers may have been built in the same season, and two with the same phase number may have been built more than a year apart.

For a buyer, the takeaway is simple. Ask which phase a home is platted in, but do not stop there. Ask when it was actually built, and check it against the county record. For a seller, the same logic applies to pricing: a recent sale from a different phase is not automatically a better or worse match. What matters is the actual construction date and condition, not the label on the plat.