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We finish out retail and commercial spaces as one job: roofing, HVAC, polished concrete, drywall, insulation, doors, cabinets and countertops. One company manages every trade from the bare shell to the finished space.
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Mineral Wells sits on broken, hilly ground where the Palo Pinto hills meet the Cross Timbers. The soil survey maps sandy loams over claystone and sandstone, often within 20 to 60 inches of the surface. Rock Creek and Pollard Creek carry the runoff through town, and the low ground along them is mapped floodplain. Pads, roads and clearing here work around rock under the topsoil and fast spring runoff.
Bankston's Builders does dirt work in Mineral Wells as part of a service area centered on Fort Worth. The town is about 50 miles west on I-20 and US-180, an hour's drive. We bring heavy equipment for land clearing, building pads, ranch roads and drainage across Palo Pinto County. Call or text (214) 557-5106 and tell us where the land is.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
The NRCS soil survey puts most of the town on the Truce, Bonti and Thurber series. Truce and Bonti are fine sandy loams that formed over claystone and sandstone of Pennsylvanian age. Bonti reaches sandstone 20 to 40 inches down, and Truce reaches dense claystone at 40 to 60 inches. The steep, rubbly Shatruce and Bonti slopes make up the hills around town.
Cuts for a pad or a road can hit rock before design grade, so the plan allows for it. Thurber clay loam and Leeray clay on the lower slopes shrink and swell with moisture. The survey rates Leeray high for shrink and swell. A pad on that ground gets moisture control and compaction in lifts.
The same survey rates most soils here as highly corrosive to uncoated steel. That matters when a culvert or a pipe goes in the ground. We set culverts as part of our site drainage work, and on engineered sites the pipe material follows the plans.
Inside the city, building permits go through the City of Mineral Wells Development Services department. The city's permit page says plan review for new construction takes 10 to 14 business days. The city has adopted the 2012 International Building Code and the 2012 International Residential Code. For a site plan, the zoning ordinance wants culverts, drains and detention ponds drawn with size and flow direction.
The city's flood damage prevention ordinance, updated in June 2025, requires a floodplain development permit in the mapped floodplain. Filling, grading and excavation count as development, and the city's building official is the floodplain administrator. FEMA's current maps for Palo Pinto County took effect in April 2019. The low ground along Rock Creek and Pollard Creek carries mapped flood zones.
Outside the city limits, Palo Pinto County handles its own pieces. The county's Public Works department issues on-site sewage permits and enforces the county subdivision regulations. Its floodplain administrator sits under Emergency Management and takes floodplain development permit applications. A septic installer handles the septic system itself, and that work is separate from our trenching.
Palo Pinto County is cattle country. The 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 1,147 farms on about 608,000 acres there. More than three quarters of that land is pasture, and cattle and calves bring in most of the farm sales. Our ranch work fits that ground: brush clearing, stock tanks, culverts and roads that hold up in a wet spring.
The soil survey notes mesquite and cedar moving into the old post oak savannah on Truce and Bonti ground. Excavators and dozers take them out, and grubbing the roots leaves the ground ready for the next phase. Inside the city limits, the city code does not allow brush to pile up on a lot. So the quote spells out where the cleared material goes.
Ranch roads and lease roads here cross the same rock and the same creeks. Our road building puts down base, shapes the crown and sets culverts where the road meets a draw. The state park's climate notes list April and May as the wettest months here. Ditches and culverts get planned with that spring runoff in mind.
Mineral Wells grew up as a mineral water resort and later around Camp Wolters, the Army post east of town. The post opened in 1925, and the Army's primary helicopter school ran there until 1973. Its land became Wolters Industrial Park and part of Lake Mineral Wells State Park. The Army built the Mineral Wells Regional Airport in 1943 to support the post.
The 2020 Census counted about 14,800 people in the city, and the Census Bureau's 2025 estimate is near 16,000. About seven in ten homes here went up before 1980, many in the Fort Wolters era. New ground is being platted too. In February 2025 the Planning and Zoning Commission took up The Wells, Phase One, a 40-acre subdivision plat.
The airport's aviation business center lists more than 100 acres of available airport property. Each of those builds starts with dirt work: clearing, a pad, an access road, trenches for utilities and drainage. That is the work we do, from the first pass with a dozer to a compacted pad ready for concrete. It is the same dirt work we do around Fort Worth, carried an hour west.
Communities and areas we serve around Mineral Wells: Downtown Mineral Wells, The Baker Hotel, Wolters Industrial Park (the former Fort Wolters), Mineral Wells Regional Airport, Lake Mineral Wells State Park and Trailway, Penitentiary Hollow, Fossil Park, Lake Pinto, Rock Creek, Pollard Creek, US-180, US-281.
Mineral Wells ZIP codes served: 76067, 76068.
Mineral Wells is part of our service area. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(214) 557-5106 We finish out retail and commercial spaces as one job: roofing, HVAC, polished concrete, drywall, insulation, doors, cabinets and countertops. One company manages every trade from the bare shell to the finished space.
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We build ground-up commercial buildings and additions for owners and developers. One company carries the job from the dirt work and the pad to the finished building.
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We clear trees and brush off ranch land and building sites with heavy equipment, roots and all. The ground is left ready for the pad or road that comes next.
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Building pads for commercial buildings, data centers, oilfield locations and custom homes. We cut and fill to the plan grades and compact each pad in lifts.
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Land grading levels lots and tracts and shapes the ground so water runs off. We do rough grading and finish grading with heavy equipment for developers, ranch owners and oil and gas operators.
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We build private, ranch, lease and haul roads on a compacted base with a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts move water off and under the road.
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As part of the site work, we dig trenches for water lines and electrical conduit, then backfill and compact them. A licensed plumber or a licensed electrician makes the hookups.
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We cut ditches and swales and set culverts that carry storm water off pads and roads. We also build stock tanks, ponds, dams and detention basins with heavy equipment.
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We build caliche pad sites and lease roads for oil and gas operators in West Texas and the Permian Basin. Grading and drainage around the location are part of the job, done by crews with real expertise on heavy equipment.
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Site work for data center campuses: clearing, mass grading, building pads, access roads, conduit trenches and drainage. We build the ground the data halls stand on, to the plans and the geotechnical report.
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We pour concrete slabs and pads on the sites we prepare ourselves. Inside commercial finish outs, we polish the concrete floor.
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We build poured concrete retaining walls that hold a cut or a fill on commercial sites, pads and ranch land. The excavation, footing, drainage and compacted backfill come with the wall.
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We rebuild commercial buildings and homes after a fire or a flood, once the building is dried out. The work runs to the insurance scope, from the tear-out through roofing, re-piping, drywall and finishes.
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We run Ethernet and structured cabling and install AV systems inside the commercial spaces we finish out. On data center projects, we put together the server racks and run the network cabling to them.
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High-end custom homes for select clients, from the pad to the finished house: stonework, custom iron doors, stone arches, fireplaces, custom kitchens, baths and closets. The dirt work and the build stay with one company.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Mineral Wells. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the land, the pad, the road or the building and where it sits. Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form and we will get back to you with the next step.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.