Potosi, Texas · Taylor County
Potosi has no city hall. It's an unincorporated community in Taylor County, so a concrete job here answers to the County, to your deed restrictions, and to the ditch along the county road in front of your property. We pour driveways, shop and barndominium slabs, RV pads, patios and house foundations across Potosi's acreage and subdivisions, and we plan each one around those three things.
Tell us what you want poured and where, and we'll walk the property before we price it.
The Handbook of Texas places Potosi on Farm Road 1750, nine miles southeast of Abilene in eastern Taylor County. The Pollard family settled the site in the 1870s, and in 1893 R. A. Pollard chose the name Potosi, after the town in Mexico, for a new post office. In 1940 it had about eighty residents. It grew dramatically in the late 1980s, and the 2020 Census counted 3,947 people and 1,454 housing units.
Those housing units are spread across about 18.3 square miles of land, according to the Census Gazetteer, so properties here are far roomier than city lots, with space for shops, RV pads and long driveways.
Taylor County says plainly that it doesn't issue certificates of occupancy, doesn't have authority to enforce zoning, and has no authority over deed restrictions or HOA and POA rules. Fewer public rules doesn't mean no rules. If your subdivision has deed restrictions on slab size, setbacks, outbuildings or driveway materials, they are enforced privately. Read yours, or send them to us, before we lay out a shop or RV pad.
Taylor County's Development Permit application carries a $50 fee. It lists new construction, houses, shops, barndominiums, mobile homes and the placement of fill, and it asks for a copy of the plans. The County Floodplain Administrator reviews it against the flood maps. We check with the County's environmental office whether your project needs one before we order concrete.
The County's environmental office also issues On-Site Sewage Facility permits. On a property with a septic system, we locate the tank and the drain field before we lay out a slab or driveway, so concrete and trucks stay off them.
Texas law requires a plat when a tract outside city limits is divided into two or more parts. Taylor County adds that plats within a city's extraterritorial jurisdiction also need that city's approval.
Where a driveway connects to a county road, Taylor County's rules set the terms:
We pour the concrete drive to stop where the County's rules say it stops. We coordinate the culvert and the permit so the job passes the Commissioner's inspection.
USDA's soil map puts the center of the Potosi area on Sagerton clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes. USDA's description of Sagerton shows clay loam for about the top 7 inches, then clay, with 35 to 45 percent clay in the main layer. On ground this flat, water doesn't leave on its own. We set every slab's finished grade so it sheds water to a swale or the road ditch, and we keep the base from sitting in a low spot that holds water after a storm.
Concrete drives from the house to the county road, built to meet the culvert and the County's width rule. See concrete driveways.
Thickened perimeters, column pads and anchor bolts to the building plan, with engineered designs where the building calls for them. See barndominium slabs.
Pads for campers, trailers and tractors, sized and reinforced for the heaviest thing parked there. See RV pads.
Send us your Potosi address, what you want poured, and whether the drive meets a county road. Your written estimate lists base, steel, concrete, finish, culvert coordination and any permit separately. Call (325) 728-4111 anytime, or use the form.
Prefer to talk? Call (325) 728-4111 anytime.
We're the same crews that pour across Abilene and Taylor County. See everything we do at Abilene Concrete Builders.
