Building in Montague County
Montague County is in north central Texas on the Oklahoma border. Its county seat, also called Montague, is 100 miles northwest of Dallas. Most of the county’s 937 square miles fall in the western Cross Timbers, with a little north central prairie in the northwest and Grand Prairie in the east central part.
Terrain is level to gently rolling, with broad valleys and high rolling prairies from 850 to 1,318 feet. Cross Timbers soils are light colored, sandy, and loamy, while prairie soils are dark and loamy. Rainfall averages thirty to thirty-five inches a year. July highs average 96° F and January lows 32°, and the growing season extends 229 days.
The legislature established the county on Christmas Eve in 1857 and organized it on August 2, 1858, from Cooke County. It was named for Daniel Montague, surveyor of the Fannin Land District and a Mexican War veteran. Indian raids slowed settlement until the mid-1870s. The Chisholm Trail crossed the county in 1867, and cattle raising dominated for twenty-five years. Railroads came in the early 1880s, starting with the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in 1882.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 93 hail reports in Montague County from 2016 to 2025, 74 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 4.5 inches. The same records show 31 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 90 mph, and 8 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
