Pools & Spas in Corsicana
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Corsicana, TX
Outdoor living is the covered patio, pool, kitchen, stone and lighting that make a backyard part of the home. Longhorn designs and builds them together for Corsicana homeowners in Navarro County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Corsicana
Corsicana is the county seat and largest city of Navarro County, fifty-eight miles southeast of Dallas at the junction of Interstate 45, U.S. highways 75 and 287, and State highways 22 and 31. In 1894 a crew drilling for water struck oil and gas instead.
That ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built here. Here is what it does to a patio.
We file the permit with the city or county office that covers Corsicana and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has been building since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Outdoor living we build in Corsicana, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Corsicana
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Corsicana
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Corsicana
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Corsicana
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Corsicana
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Corsicana
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Corsicana
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Corsicana homes
Homes and Yards in Corsicana
Corsicana was established in 1848 as the county seat. José Antonio Navarro named it for the island of Corsica, his parents' birthplace, and the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, completed in 1871, brought new settlers and merchants.
With an older home, outdoor rooms read best when the columns, railings and roofline follow the original house, so the addition looks planned rather than tacked on.
Navarro County’s natural resources include clay, limestone, sand, gravel, oil, and natural gas, and over 200 million barrels of oil have been taken from the county since 1895. Between 30 and 40 percent of its land is prime farmland.
Water comes from the City of Corsicana public water system, which treats surface water.
The town grew around a log tavern built in 1847, and its first courthouse, a two-room log building, went up in 1849. By the mid-1880s Corsicana was the leading trading and shipping center for a large area of the northern blacklands, and by 1885 it had about 5,000 people, two banks, and four weekly newspapers.
The 1894 oil find was the first significant discovery of oil west of the Mississippi River and led to Texas’s first oil boom. The first oil refinery in the state was built in 1897, and by 1898 there were 287 producing wells. In 1900 Corsicana had 9,313 inhabitants, and a new courthouse was completed in 1905.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 46 hail reports in Navarro County from 2016 to 2025, 31 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 2.75 inches. 5 of those reports were logged at Corsicana itself, the largest 1.25 inches. The same records show 48 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 82 mph, and 10 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
What each outdoor project needs in Corsicana, TX
How is a pool built in Corsicana?
Blackland Prairie clay swells through a wet spring and shrinks hard by August, and a pool shell is a rigid object sitting in ground that moves around it. Here that means the shell, the beam and the deck are engineered for that movement from the drawing stage, and the flatwork gets its control joints placed on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends. In Corsicana the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Corsicana, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Corsicana?
Blackland Prairie clay lifts and drops with the season, so a patio cover’s footings are the whole job. Posts set in shallow pads move with the top of the soil and take the roofline with them; footings taken below the active zone, tied to a slab that drains away from the house, do not. In Corsicana the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Corsicana, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Corsicana?
On Blackland Prairie clay a pergola’s posts are what decide whether it still stands square in five years. The clay moves most in the top few feet, so footings go deeper than the movement rather than resting in it, and the slab underneath gets its own drainage plan. More on pergolas.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Corsicana?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Corsicana is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Corsicana and sits on footings designed for the ground under it. We match the roofline and the exterior to the house so it reads as part of it. More on sunrooms and patio enclosures.
Corsicana outdoor living questions
Almost always, for pools and for anything attached to the house, including patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures. Longhorn files the permit with the city or county office that covers Corsicana and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Corsicana sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Navarro County. The ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built, so we plan the drainage and the footings for it at the first visit rather than after something moves.
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