Iraan is a horrible place. A nice lunch out is a frozen burrito from the Chevron station. It is an old oilfield camp.
Well I don’t know about a horrible place but it is what it is. My Mom was born there in 1921 when it was nothing more than a tent city full of workers in the oilfields. I’ve put in a ton of wells in that area and all through the Trans Pecos. I must admit I haven’t been in that area in the last 20 years other than hunting (We haul our own food), but back when I did go there some of the finest little Mom and Pop Mexican food restaurants in the area were located there. My cousin has a place on the Pecos River there and it’s quite nice, he raises sheep and goats. Used to do it for a living but now it’s more of a hobby since they started drilling wells on the place about 40 years ago. He owns the surface but both our families hold the minerals. It’s 21 sections with 4 miles of river front and some great fishing. I love that area down there, it’s just what people expect when they think of west Texas. Arid, sparse and rough country that was once a major travel way for native Americans and early settlers, the river is cover with ancient camp sites. I’ve got an old cigar box full of flint arrowheads my Mom and her siblings found when they were children running those mountains along the river. Our place up here in Howard County is much the same way, rough country but we do have a few springs that were major stopping places for the early travelers, ours is 42 sections total. I just have a love for this rough old west Texas Country.