Outdoor Living in Godley, 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 Godley homeowners in Johnson County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Godley
Godley is a small Johnson County town west of I-35W on FM 917, surrounded by ranch and hay land, so residential parcels are commonly multi-acre rather than platted suburban lots. It sits in the heart of the Barnett Shale gas field, and gas pads, pipelines and their easements are a routine site constraint on rural tracts there.
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 of Godley and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Johnson County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Homes and Yards in Godley
Most homes around Godley sit on multi-acre parcels among ranch and hay land rather than on platted subdivision lots.
On a rural tract, gas pads, pipelines and their easements can limit where a pool or a structure goes, so they get located before the design starts.
Godley lies near the headwaters of the Nolan River, a tributary of the Brazos River. Near a creek or river it is worth checking the flood maps early, before a pool or slab is placed.
City of Godley water system, drawing on Trinity Aquifer wells.
Godley was established in 1886 after R. B. Godley, a Cleburne lumber merchant, donated an eight-acre townsite and a twenty-acre right-of-way to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway; by 1888 the town had a post office, a gristmill, three cotton gins, and two dairy plants. The branch line, now run by the Fort Worth and Western Railroad, still cuts through town. Population stayed small for a century: 613 in the mid-1920s, 569 in 1990, 879 in 2000, 1,009 in 2010, 1,450 in 2020, and 1,858 in 2021. The comprehensive plan credits the Chisholm Trail Parkway, opened in 2014, with the recent wave of platted subdivisions, and notes the Barnett Shale has been in production here since 1999.
The city supplies water inside its limits from four wells, with two pump stations, four ground storage tanks, and an emergency connection to Johnson County Special Utility District, which serves some addresses directly. On August 28, 2026 the district entered Stage 1 of its drought plan, limiting sprinklers to twice a week between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m., even addresses Wednesday and Saturday and odd addresses Thursday and Sunday.
West Nolan Creek rises in the northwest part of the city and runs south parallel to Highway 171, with tributaries reaching north into downtown. FEMA maps these as Zone A floodplain, meaning unstudied with no 100-year water surface elevations, and the plan notes existing structures inside the mapped tributary across 4th, 5th, and Allen Avenue. Permit questions go to the Permit Technician at City Hall, 200 W Railroad Avenue, 817-389-3539 ext. 107.
What each outdoor project needs in Godley, TX
What does a patio cover need in Godley?
Fort Worth Prairie limestone sits close to the surface, which is good news for a patio cover: footings bear on rock instead of moving clay. The trade is excavation: drilling a footing into limestone takes different equipment than augering clay, and that belongs in the price up front. In Godley the permit goes through the City of Godley, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Godley?
On Fort Worth Prairie ground a pergola’s footings usually reach limestone quickly, which makes for a stable base. Getting there is the work: shallow rock means drilling rather than augering, and it is worth knowing before anyone quotes a post count. More on pergolas.
How is a pool built in Godley?
Fort Worth Prairie ground is shallow soil over limestone, so a pool excavation here often means rock rather than shrink-swell clay. That is a cost we would rather price honestly at the design visit than discover halfway through the dig, and it is the single biggest variable on this side of the metroplex. In Godley the permit goes through the City of Godley, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
How a Backyard Project Runs in Godley
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A free design visit in Godley
A designer comes out to the house, measures the space a backyard project has to fit, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want it to do. You leave with a firm price. On Fort Worth Prairie ground, that is also when the grading, drainage and movement details get decided rather than improvised on site.
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Drawings, permit and HOA
We file the permit with the City of Godley and follow it through review, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork. Where an HOA wants a submittal, we prepare the drawings it asks for.
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One crew, one schedule
The same team builds the whole backyard project in order, so the slab, the structure, the electrical and the finish work are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished backyard project with you, settle the punch list and leave one warranty on the work, and we are still Johnson County-local if you need us later.
Godley 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 of Godley and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Godley sits on Fort Worth Prairie ground in Johnson 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.
Where an HOA in Godley asks for a submittal, we prepare the drawings and details it wants, alongside the city permit, so the approval runs in parallel with the design rather than after it.
Yes. Many homeowners start with one piece, such as a pool or a patio cover, and add the rest later. We plan the whole space up front so the gas, power, water and drainage for later phases are in place from the start.
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