Tarpley is a small community with a big heart and a lot of determination when it sets goals. The unincorporated area 12 miles southwest of Bandera is close-knit and especially proud of its emergency response organization - the Tarpley Volunteer Fire Department. How proud and how determined? Enough to raise $215,000 to help get a new fire truck and a new fire station. Tarpley and its VFD raised $40,000 to match a $200,000 Texas Forest Service grant for a new large brush truck and also ...