We cover the south west corner of Denton County, the part closest to Fort Worth: Roanoke, Trophy Club, Northlake, Justin, Argyle and the Alliance area. This page covers those towns, the three soils that meet in the county, and what Trophy Club asks of contractors.
Roanoke, Trophy Club, Northlake, Justin, Argyle and the parts of Fort Worth that run up into the county around Alliance Airport. The city of Denton, the county seat, and the towns along I-35E on the east side are further out; send the address and you will get an honest answer on whether it is in reach.
Denton County straddles regions. The western half is surfaced with the black soil of the Grand Prairie. An eastern sliver is on the edge of the Blackland Prairie, and between them runs the sandy land of the Eastern Cross Timbers, a sharp contrast with the black soil on either side. Denton Creek and its tributaries in the south of the county feed Grapevine Lake, and the Elm Fork of the Trinity was dammed in the 1920s into what is now Lewisville Lake.
For a driveway that means two different sets of problems within a few miles. On the black prairie soil of the western half, around Justin and Northlake, clay movement cracks and heaves along the edges are the usual story. On the sandier Cross Timbers ground, edges wash out and roots from the oaks lift the asphalt. Near Grapevine Lake and the creeks, low properties hold water. The quote says which one yours is dealing with.
Grapevine Lake is fed by Denton Creek from this corner of the county, and Lewisville Lake lies to the east. Around the creeks and the lake arms the ground stays wet longer after a storm, and a drive that dips toward the water keeps a soft spot at its low end. That spot gets dug out and rebuilt with stone before anything else is worth doing.
The county started serving as a bedroom community for Dallas and Fort Worth as early as the Second World War, and growth sped up as the highways and airports arrived. By the 1980s, horses were bringing in more farm income than any other product in the county. Both show on the ground today: horse properties and acreage with long private drives, gates and barn lots on one side of a road, and new subdivisions off SH 114 and SH 170 on the other. The newest drives should wait six to twelve months before a first seal coat; the older acreage drives are usually overdue.
Alliance Airport and the logistics and business parks around it bring truck traffic onto the local roads, and commercial lots up here take heavier loads at their entrances than a typical office lot.
Acreage drives up here bring their own checklist. Automatic gates need to be left open or their sensors isolated while the coat cures. Turnarounds have to be big enough for a horse trailer, so they are measured as part of the drive. Hay, mud and manure tracked onto the asphalt from the barn side are cleaned off before sealing, because sealer does not bond to dirt. And the stretch where the asphalt meets a gravel lane or a pasture gate gets a firm, finished edge so tires do not break it.
Sealing and crack filling on your own drive are not right-of-way work. Anything at the road is done under the right permit, and the fee is written on the quote.
Yes. The drive, the turnaround and the barn lot go on one quote, and trailer parking is planned around so the new coat is not marked by a jack stand.
Yes, and only through a contractor registered with the town, as Trophy Club requires.
It is at the far edge. Send the address and you will get a straight answer.
Entrances that take heavy trucks usually need the failed area rebuilt with a thicker base before sealing, and that section is priced as paving. The rest of the lot is sealed and restriped with it.
Next door: Tarrant County to the south and Parker County to the south west.
