Heavy Duty Towing in Iowa Park, TX

Heavy Duty Towing in Iowa Park covers a town of 6,535 people (2020 census) in Wichita County, a short run northwest of Wichita Falls. The Handbook of Texas puts it about five miles from Wichita Falls. The US 287 expressway northwest from Wichita Falls to Iowa Park and Electra opened in 1962, and freight leaving the city for the northwest heads out through here.

Railroad beginnings

Iowa Park was founded in 1888 beside the tracks of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway by D. C. and A. J. Kolp. It was first called Daggett Switch and became a shipping point for cotton and wheat. It incorporated in 1891. A concrete highway to Wichita Falls was built in 1927. Rail service to the community ended in the late 1960s, so what the trains once carried now moves in trucks.

Farm and oilfield trucks

The Handbook of Texas calls the town an agricultural marketing center, and the 1950s version of it had two grain elevators and two banks. In 1990 its plants included fertilizer and oilfield equipment. Oil was discovered just south of town toward the end of World War I. That history matters for towing in three ways:

• Grain trucks and bulk trailers are tall and top-heavy when they roll
• Oilfield equipment is wide, long and often on a lowboy
• Fertilizer loads need a clear description on the first call

Harvest and planting seasons bring slow farm machinery onto the same roads as loaded semis.

Flat ground, long visibility

Iowa Park sits at 1,053 feet of elevation, and the town covers about four square miles, so a breakdown is never far from a cross street. The harder calls are rollovers and slide-offs on the expressway. A trailer on its side needs a different plan from a jackknife in traffic, so tell us how the unit is lying.

History in numbers

The town had 792 people in 1900, 2,041 in 1920 after the oil discovery, 3,295 in 1960 and 5,796 in 1970. The Wikipedia article reports that the late 1960s brought two state football championships and about 20 percent population growth. The James V. Allred Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is in Wichita Falls in proximity to Iowa Park, and Iowa Park Consolidated Independent School District serves the town. School district buses are a regular sight here, and a bus tow always starts with passenger safety.

The two-lane picture

Beyond the US 287 expressway, the roads around Iowa Park are the farm and oilfield roads that feed it. A grain truck that slides off a narrow shoulder can need a winch line before it can be towed. Describe how far off the pavement you are and how soft the ground looks.

If you break down here

Give us the highway and direction, the nearest town sign or cross road, and whether you are on the pavement or the shoulder. Tell us the unit type, loaded or empty, and who is paying. Call (940) 283-6645 or

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