There's not much to either town. Most of Dustin Acres sits right along Route 33, or near enough to it to read the tattoos of passing oil-field workers. Fellows has just 11 streets, most of them just a few hundred feet long. Still, it's possible to get lost out here if you don't know your way around. They've taken out so many houses, there's gaps in the numbers.
Homeowners own their structures but pay annual land-lease fees to the oil company holding title.
It's an unusual relationship that occasionally makes for unique tenant-landlord squabbles, such as last week's tiff over a Texaco plan to remove several of the town's trees. Fellows residents started a petition and phone-call drive, and Texaco backed off. To survive out here, a person has to be willing to make do with less in the way of entertainment than more urbanized citizens might expect. There are other reasons to live here, though. Maybe that's the chamber of commerce in her talking.