During the 1920s, Ranger, like nearby Cisco, Eastland, and Desdemona, was a petroleum boomtown.

[5] The Texas Pacific Coal Company of Thurber drilled a gas well north of Ranger in August 1917, after town civic leaders offered acreage in return for four test wells.

Then on October 11, 1917, the McClesky well, one mile southwest of Ranger, produced oil at 1200 BOPD.

The Ranger Oil Field production peaked in July 1919 at 80,000 BOPD.

The oil boom brought many seeking jobs, including farm boys and demobilized veterans.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[9] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,300 people, 1,017 households, and 516 families residing in the city.