Gas Line Repair in Decatur, AR
About 30% of homes in Decatur are on mains gas and 12% on propane. The split matters because a meter is a legal boundary and a propane tank is not.
Read this first
In Decatur, 30% of homes are on mains gas and 12% on bottled, so the town average settles nothing about any one address. Mains gas ends the utility's regulated line at the meter outlet; a tank supply has no such boundary.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else, and do not call us — we are a referral service, not an emergency line. The full list, in order.
How Decatur is supplied
In a town with both, the useful page is the one about the arrangement you actually have. The meter is the tell: if there is one, there is a service line behind it and a boundary at its outlet.
| Households in Decatur | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 30% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 12% |
| Electricity | 45% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 12% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 1,072 occupied housing units. This is the heating-fuel table. It does not enumerate service lines, and no table does at this geography; what it gives is the best available indication of which arrangement a property is on. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Arkansas as a whole, 46% of households are on mains gas and 5% on tank propane. Decatur sits 16 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That distance from the state average is the whole argument for publishing a town figure at all.
Before anyone digs on the property
8-1-1 is free and nationwide, and PHMSA gives callers a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury or worse. Ask them what they will and will not mark: privately owned buried lines on your own side of the meter frequently are not covered.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask how the work will be tested and what happens at the end of it. An inspection on gas work is normal rather than a complication, and a contractor who treats it as one is telling you something.
Other Arkansas towns we route in
- Bella Vista 5% mains gas · 17% tank propane
- Fayetteville 47% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Mountainburg 2% mains gas · 13% tank propane
- Pea Ridge 59% mains gas · 6% tank propane
- Alma 33% mains gas · 3% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Arkansas
Arkansas licenses are issued by the Arkansas Department of Health, Plumbing and Natural Gas Section, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. We serve Decatur for plumbing that has nothing to do with gas.
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