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Sunray Sod & Lawn Installation Licensed & Insured

Amarillo Elite Sod & Turf provides professional sod installation services in Sunray, TX — Moore County, population 1,707 at the 2020 census. From bermuda sod and buffalo grass sod to tree, shrub & windbreak planting, our licensed and insured team serves Sunray homes and businesses.

Sunray property owners near the McKee refinery north of town, the old Rock Island rail line from Dalhart to Morse count on Amarillo Elite Sod & Turf for sod installation in Sunray. We bring the same sod installation work we are known for in Amarillo to every job in Sunray, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.

Call (844) 511-2320 for a free sod installation estimate in Sunray, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.

Sod Installation in Sunray, TX

Sunray sits in northeastern Moore County and was laid out in 1930 by Jack Collins, a Channing rancher and banker, who first sold lots under the name Altman before discovering a town in Rusk County already had it. The name changed when Sunray Oil Company built a gas and oil refinery nearby, and the townsite itself was positioned along a new Rock Island Railroad route running from Dalhart to Morse. The 1956 McKee refinery fire, which killed 19 firefighters, remains the defining event in local memory.

Sunray is a planned town and the lawns reflect it. Because the whole place was platted at once and largely built out in a couple of decades, the residential blocks are unusually uniform — similar house footprints, similar setbacks, similar rectangular yards — which makes it the easiest town on this list to price accurately and the most efficient to schedule. We routinely run several Sunray installs off one delivery. At 3,504 feet the growing season matches Amarillo closely. The one local variable is that the town sits on genuinely open ground with no relief in any direction, so irrigation runs before dawn or it does not run productively at all.

Getting a free estimate in Sunray

Call (844) 511-2320 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Sunray, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.

We also serve Stinnett, TX and the rest of the Texas Panhandle. Everything starts at the Amarillo Elite Sod & Turf homepage.

Sod Installation work we do in Sunray, TX

Amarillo Elite Sod & Turf covers the same range of work in Sunray that we do in Amarillo — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

  • Bermuda SodBermuda sod is the toughest, thirstiest-in-reverse lawn you can grow in Amarillo, and the only thing standing between it and a clean record here is winter. We install the cold-hardy Oklahoma State lines — Tahoma 31, Latitude 36, NorthBridge and Patriot — because the Panhandle sits at the northern edge of Bermuda's comfortable range, and the southern cultivars sold two hundred miles down the road do not always come back in April.
  • Buffalo Grass SodBuffalo grass sod is the only lawn on our list that was already growing here before anybody drilled a water well, and on the Southern High Plains that stops being sentimental and starts being practical. Buffalograss, Bouteloua dactyloides, is the native short grass of this exact prairie, it will hold a lawn on roughly half the irrigation a Bermuda yard wants, and we install it as sod in Prairie, Legacy, Density and Bowie.
  • Kentucky Bluegrass SodKentucky bluegrass sod gives you a genuinely green lawn in March and November, which no warm-season grass in Amarillo will ever do for you. At 3,600 feet in zone 7a it is a legitimate choice rather than a stretch — the same grass that fails in Houston works here, because our winters are cold enough and our nights cool off.
  • Tall Fescue SodTall fescue sod is the best shade grass in Amarillo and the right answer for a north-facing yard, a lot with real tree canopy, or anybody who wants green grass in the first week of March. Bermuda and buffalograss both quit below about six hours of direct sun; turf-type tall fescue keeps a stand in four, which is why almost every mature neighbourhood in town has fescue somewhere in it.
  • Zoysia SodZoysia sod at this latitude means Meyer, and anyone offering you Emerald or Zeon for an Amarillo yard is selling you a lawn that will not see a third winter. Meyer is the cold-hardy Zoysia japonica selection that made this grass viable in the transition zone at all, and it is effectively the only Zoysia we will put on a Panhandle lot.
  • Native Prairie TurfNative prairie turf is a buffalograss and blue grama planting that treats your yard as part of the short-grass prairie it is physically sitting on, and it is the lowest-water lawn we install. Blue grama, Bouteloua gracilis, and buffalograss are the two dominant native grasses of this exact landscape — they were here before the plough, they are still out there past the last subdivision, and they will hold a lawn on rainfall plus a little help in the worst weeks of summer.

See the full list of Amarillo services, or call (844) 511-2320.

About Sunray, TX — and why local matters here

Sunray sits in Moore County with a population of roughly 1,707 at the 2020 census, close enough to Amarillo that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the McKee refinery north of town, the old Rock Island rail line from Dalhart to Morse.

Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Sunray properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Moore County, and a sod installation contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.

Popular services in Sunray: Bermuda Sod and Buffalo Grass Sod.

We also serve Stinnett, TX and the Texas Panhandle.

Sunray Sod & Lawn Installation: Common Questions

Do you charge extra to come out to Sunray?

No. Sunray is inside our regular sod installation service area, so the free estimate and the pricing are the same as they are in Amarillo. Crews are in Moore County most weeks already.

How soon can you start a sod installation job in Sunray?

We can usually walk a Sunray property within a couple of days and put the written free estimate in your hands the same week. Start dates depend on material lead times and permit review through Moore County, and we tell you both before you commit to anything.

Are you licensed to work in Sunray, TX?

Yes. Licensed landscape contractor, TDA-licensed applicator on staff, Fully insured and bonded, and every job in Sunray is backed by 30-day sod establishment guarantee. We pull permits with the local building department the same way we do in Amarillo.

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