Fence Company in Spring Branch, TX for Driveway Gates and Game Fence

City Strip or County Land? Check First

A small city with a big ZIP code. Spring Branch only became a city in 2015, when residents voted to incorporate to keep local self-governance. The city covers about 1.9 square miles along US 281, Spring Branch Road and FM 311, but the 78070 ZIP code covers far more ground than that. Say your mailing address says Spring Branch. Odds are your land sits outside the city, in unincorporated Comal County. Many of those properties are in subdivisions with HOA rules or deed restrictions that can cover fence height, material and gate placement.

On county land, work in the public right-of-way, such as a new driveway connection, needs a PIPROW permit from the Comal County Engineer's Office. We check where the right-of-way ends before setting gate posts near the road.

Slopes, Rock and Long Drives

A lot of property out here sits on hillsides with rock close to the surface. Fence lines climb and drop, so we step or rack panels to follow the ground and drill post holes where the auger won't go.

Driveways are often long and sloped. A swing gate needs room to clear the ground as it opens, and on an uphill drive it may not have it. That's when a slide gate on a track makes more sense. We look at the grade, the space beside the drive and how you'll power the operator, including solar, before we recommend one.

Building on Spring Branch Slopes and Rock

Spring Branch takes its name from a small spring-fed creek that ran about a mile and a half into the Guadalupe River. The town sits along US 281, north of Bulverde and west of Canyon Lake, and most of the 78070 area spreads out from US 281, Spring Branch Road and FM 311.

A dollar an acre. The first settler here, Hans Heinrich Dietrich Knibbe, bought his homestead land for one dollar an acre. Five more families followed between 1854 and 1856, and their six farms sat on opposite banks of that little creek. The land has been divided many times since. Say you've bought a few acres that were once part of one of those early farms. The old fence lines may not match your survey, so we check where your line really runs before we set a post. On those county acres, a new or changed driveway connection in the public right-of-way needs a Comal County PIPROW permit, so we find where your line meets the right-of-way before gate posts go in.

The land climbs and drops. The steeper ridge sides carry extremely stony clay over limestone, so we drill post holes where an auger won't bite, step or rack fence to follow the grade, and pick swing or slide gates by how the drive slopes.

Landmarks and streets we work near: Guadalupe River · Canyon Lake (to the east)