Amarillo Elite Sod & Turf installs sod and turf in Sunray, TX — Moore County, population 1,707 at the 2020 census. From bermuda sod and buffalo grass sod to lawn maintenance programs, our 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 (877) 782-0537 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 (877) 782-0537 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.
The sod installation jobs Sunray calls us for
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:
- Kentucky Bluegrass Sod — Kentucky 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 Sod — Tall 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 neighborhood in town has fescue somewhere in it.
- Zoysia Sod — Zoysia 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 Turf — Native 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 plow, 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.
- Artificial Turf Installation — Artificial turf installation makes sense in Amarillo in three specific situations: a dog run that real grass has already lost, a small courtyard where mowing costs more hassle than the grass is worth, and a north side yard that gets four hours of sun and has refused to grow anything since the house was built. Everywhere else, real sod is cheaper, cooler and better, and we will tell you which one you have before you spend the money.
- Commercial & HOA Sod — Commercial sod installation is a logistics job wearing a landscaping hat, and up here the logistics are harder than the horticulture. We install turf for HOAs, apartment properties, retail and medical campuses, distribution centers along Interstate 40, school districts, municipal parks and basin slopes across Amarillo, Canyon, Hereford, Borger and Pampa, with volume pricing on anything over 10,000 square feet.
See the full list of Amarillo services, or call (877) 782-0537.
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.