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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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Stephenville sits on the North Bosque River, near where the Western Cross Timbers give way to the Grand Prairie. Most ground around town is fine sandy loam over a clay or sandy clay subsoil, weathered from old sandstone. That loose sandy top strips fast, and the clay under it drains slowly. A pad or ranch road built on it without compaction and drainage will rut and hold water.
Bankston's Builders does dirt work in Stephenville as part of our Texas service area. We clear brush and trees with heavy equipment, then build the pads and ranch roads that follow. Jobs here often start with land clearing on a tract and end with a road to it. Call or text (214) 557-5106 and tell us about the land. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Erath County splits into two kinds of ground. The Western Cross Timbers cover the northwest two thirds of the county. Post oak grows there on sandy and red clay soils. The Grand Prairie covers the southeast third, with dark limy soil over limestone. Stephenville sits near the line between them. A job west of town can dig very differently from one to the southeast.
Two soils the NRCS describes from this part of the Cross Timbers are the Duffau and Windthorst series. The Duffau type location is near Lingleville, about 10 miles west of town. Both have a fine sandy loam surface over sandy clay loam or clay. They formed from sandstone and claystone of Cretaceous age. The Windthorst subsoil passes water slowly.
On a building pad, the sandy top comes off first. The clay below gets compacted in lifts and proof rolled before anything sits on it. On the Grand Prairie side, rock can show up early in a cut, and the work changes. Our building pad work and land grading in Stephenville start with a look at which ground you have.
Erath County is ranch and dairy country. In 2002 the county led Texas in milk production, and it ranked second in the 1980s. The 2002 farm census counted nearly 2,000 farms and ranches on about 580,000 acres, more than half of it pasture. That land needs roads that carry feed trucks and stock trailers through a wet spring. It also needs pads for barns and stock tanks that hold water.
Our ranch road building starts with the route and the water. A ranch road here sits on a compacted base with a crown. Rain runs to the side ditches instead of down the wheel tracks. Culverts carry water under the road at the low crossings. Where the road serves a dairy or a working ranch, we size it for the trucks that will use it.
The North Bosque River runs through town, and the Paluxy is the county's other main stream. Both feed the Brazos. Erath County averages about 29 inches of rain a year. Sandy slopes along the creeks can erode where that water concentrates. Our stock tank and drainage work moves that water off pads and roads. It holds the water where the ranch can use it.
Stephenville grew from 14,921 people in the 2000 Census to 20,897 in 2020, a gain of about 40 percent. Tarleton State University reports more than 27,000 students across its locations and calls its current growth unprecedented. Every new apartment block or campus building starts with a cleared site and a compacted pad.
Commercial growth follows the highways. US 377 swings around the south side of town on the South Loop. Washington Street is the old route through the middle. US 281 runs north to Mineral Wells and south to Hico. SH 108 heads northwest to Thurber on I-20, and Farm Road 8 runs west from US 281 to Lingleville. The city's own Development Services office sits on the South Loop.
A commercial pad on the loop and a barn pad on a ranch tract need the same base work. Cut and fill sets the grade, and the subgrade gets compacted in layers before any concrete goes down. Water and electric lines run in trenches cut and backfilled as part of the same site work. We do that work for commercial developers and for landowners building on acreage around Stephenville.
Inside the city limits, the City of Stephenville's Development Services Department issues building permits and inspects the work. Its permit list includes new commercial and residential buildings and driveways. Zoning changes and subdivision plats go to the Planning and Zoning Commission, which makes recommendations to the City Council.
Outside the city, the rules change. Erath County says on its own site that it requires no zoning permit or certificate of occupancy. The county has no building inspector. Septic permits still come from the county's Environmental Health office, and the Erath County Appraisal District assigns 911 addresses. A driveway onto a state highway or a Farm to Market road needs a TxDOT permit. The county asks for a copy of it with the address application.
Statewide rules reach every big dirt job here too. Texas law calls for an 811 locate ticket before mechanized digging 16 inches or deeper. The notice goes in at least 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and legal holidays. A project that disturbs an acre or more of soil falls under TCEQ's construction stormwater permit. That permit, TXR150000, requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan. New water wells fall under the Middle Trinity Groundwater Conservation District, whose office is in Stephenville. The permit office answers your case, and we point you there.
Communities and areas we serve around Stephenville: Tarleton State University, Courthouse Square, Washington Street (Business US 377), South Loop (US 377), Northwest Loop, Harbin Drive, Lingleville Road, Wolfe Nursery Road, Bosque River Trail, Birdsong Amphitheater, Bill Johnson Park, Morgan Mill.
Stephenville ZIP codes served: 76401, 76402.
Stephenville 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 Stephenville. 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.