The Working Man's Ranch in Hersey Ranch Subdivision Located Approx 3 miles W of Iraan right on the Border of Pecos and Crockett County This land falls in the Crockett County Jurisdiction. This Ranch Consist of 2 - 100 acre parcels located at the Back of the Ranch the much larger Thompson Ranch Surrounds these tracts on 2 sides. The Ranch has Gentle Rolling Hills which make for some Great Views with some Canyons and Crevasses. This place is plush with gamma grass, algerita, and buffalo grass. There are a few small mesquites, Greasewood, and cedar trees, also a few Big Bull mesquite. Loaded with game 50/50 Whitetail & Mule Deer, Dove, Quial, lots of Javelina, Turkey, Bobcat, and occasional Mountain Lion. I haven't been on place that is this affordable to the everyday Working Man that has this much Game. Come take a look at it with Us.
The Town: Iraan was named for Ira and Ann Yates,...
The Town: Iraan was named for Ira and Ann Yates, owners of the ranchland upon which the town was built. Iraan is a quite Town with Lodging, Parts/Feed Store, and a Multitude of
Restaurants From Traditional Mexican Food to a Pizza Buffet. Iraan was an oil boom town, and developed quickly after the discovery of the gigantic Yates Oil Field, which is adjacent to the town on the southwest. The oil field was discovered in 1926, and the first buildings in town were basic housing and infrastructure for workers on the field, all built by the Big Lake Oil Company which became Plymouth Oil Company which was purchased by the Ohio Oil Company, then purchased by Marathon Oil Company, and owned today by Kinder Morgan. By 1927 the town included a school, and the post office appeared in 1928. The population of the town in 1930 was approximately 1,600. About three miles (5 km) south of Iraan was the oil boomtown of Redbarn, which appeared almost immediately after discovery of the oil field, before Iraan itself. It was a collection of tents and shanties in the immediate vicinity of Ira Yates's ranch. He donated 152 acres (0.62 km2) of his ranch to the town of Iraan to encourage further development there instead; in 1952 the town of Redbarn, which never had a permanent population of more than 75, was finally abandoned.
One of Iraan's most famous residents was V.T. Hamlin, the creator of the comic strip Alley Oop. He worked in Iraan during the oil boom period of the late 1920s, and either got the idea for the strip or created its earliest drafts there; the strip was first published in 1932. A park in Iraan is named after the strip.
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