Patio Covers in Bishop Hills, TX
An incorporated town of about eighty houses on a third of a square mile, sitting roughly 160 feet below the Amarillo plains surface.
No obligation. Every estimate starts at the house, looking at the slab, the wall you would attach to and where the afternoon sun actually lands.
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Bishop Hills at a glance
Every figure below comes from a named public source. Where we could not verify something, this page says so instead of filling the gap.
Population from 2020 Census count. Design wind and snow from ASCE 7-16 wind and snow hazard data; permit and code details from each jurisdiction's own published material.
Permits
Incorporated, tiny, and publishing nothing about permits
We confirm the current position for your specific address before quoting. Fee schedules and code adoptions change, and a page that was right last year is not a substitute for asking.
Bishop Hills is an incorporated town: it appears in the Census incorporated places layer with its own GNIS feature, on 0.313 square miles of land, the smallest municipality in this service area. It is served by Bushland ISD.
We could not locate a municipal website. Building permit programme, adopted code edition, ordinance number, fee schedule and building official are all unverified, as is the town's incorporation date.
Because it is a municipality, Texas Local Government Code section 214.212 applies, which makes the International Residential Code the residential building code here by statute regardless of what the town has or has not adopted locally. So the code standard is settled even where the process is not. We confirm the practical requirement with the town before quoting.
The ground
Below the plains surface, and the survey does not reach it
Bishop Hills sits at about 3,497 ft, roughly 160 feet below the elevation at Amarillo's own reference point of 3,659 ft. That is the numeric signature of a site set down off the flat plains surface toward the Canadian River breaks northwest of the city.
The 1980 Potter County soil survey does not mention Bishop Hills at all, so the specific map unit here is not established. Given the position below the plains surface, the candidate county units are the breaks associations, Mobeetie-Tascosa, Potter-Mobeetie or Veal-Mobeetie, rather than the flat Pullman unit. We could not verify which, so we will not state one.
What that means practically is that a Bishop Hills lot needs looking at rather than assuming. Breaks soils can be shallow with rock or caliche near the surface, which changes how a footing is dug and how deep it can go. That is a site question, answered on site.
On the record
A hail report half a mile away
No National Weather Service report exists under the name Bishop Hills. The nearest verified one is a 0.75 inch hail report logged at 03:01 UTC on 5 May 2024 at coordinates 35.26 north, 101.96 west, filed under the label eight miles northeast of Bushland. Those coordinates are about half a mile from Bishop Hills' own reference point.
We report it that way, as a report at those coordinates, rather than dressing it up as a Bishop Hills event. It is the honest version and it tells you what you need to know: hail reaches this ground like it reaches everywhere else out here.
The market
Eighty owner-occupied houses and almost no rentals
Bishop Hills is a genuine anomaly. It is a third of a square mile with about 87 housing units, 80 of them owner occupied among 81 occupied, and a median home value of $322,900 against an Amarillo metropolitan median of $208,700. Median household income is $112,813.
The margins of error on a place this small are large. The ACS population estimate of 202 carries a margin of plus or minus 87, about 43 percent, so we quote the 2020 Census count of 211 instead where a single number is needed.
The combination that defines it is a tiny incorporated footprint, near-total owner occupancy, above-metro house values and effectively no rental stock, on ground set down off the plains northwest of the city. It is a small enclave of owner-occupied houses eight miles from downtown Amarillo, which makes it exactly the kind of place where a well-built outdoor structure is a sensible investment.
What we build here
Outdoor structures in Bishop Hills
Pergolas & Pavilions
Open rafters or a freestanding solid roof out in the yard. Different footings from an attached cover, and no ledger problem at all.
What it involves →Patio Covers
A roof over the slab you already have. Aluminium, insulated panel or louvered, engineered for 108 mph wind and anchored for uplift.
What it involves →Covered Patios
Slab and cover together, where there is no usable patio yet. One pour, one structure, one set of footings designed as a whole.
What it involves →Questions
About building in Bishop Hills
Does Bishop Hills issue building permits?
We could not verify. Bishop Hills is an incorporated town, confirmed in the Census incorporated places layer, but we could not locate a municipal website or any published code adoption, permit programme, fee schedule or building official.
Because it is a municipality, state law makes the IRC the residential building code here regardless. The code standard is settled even where the process is not, and we confirm the practical requirement with the town before quoting.
Is the ground here different from Amarillo?
Probably, and we cannot say precisely how. Bishop Hills sits at about 3,497 ft, roughly 160 feet below Amarillo's reference elevation, on ground set down toward the Canadian River breaks.
The Potter County soil survey does not mention Bishop Hills at all, so the map unit is not established. Breaks soils in the county can be shallow with rock or caliche near the surface, which changes how footings are dug. We look at the lot rather than assuming a county average.
How close is Bishop Hills to Amarillo?
8.1 miles west northwest, which makes it the closest place in this service area to the city and effectively a short drive from downtown.
Distance has no effect on price at that range. What does affect the design is the ground, which is not the flat Pullman upland Amarillo mostly sits on, and the permitting position, which is a different authority from the City of Amarillo.
Cost
Price a cover for a Bishop Hills address
The calculators take your dimensions, your roof type, your wall and your jurisdiction, and return a band with the permit worked out rather than guessed at.
Nearby
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Next step
Send the address and a photo of the wall
What your exterior wall is made of, and which permit desk your address falls under, decide more about the project than the dimensions do.