I opened a tote of baby blankets that were in the barn and there was a dead baby rat snake....That tote really reeked... got it scrubbed out and all the blankets washed... that tote is stored in the house now...
I don't mind 'good" snakes but the venomous snakes can stay away.
When we lived in Texas on a mountain, we bought a book on snakes and our daughters were taught how to id a poisonous snake and what type it was. We never saw any snakes while we lived there.