Gas Line Repair in Gentry, AR
Gentry is a town of two systems. 36% take mains gas and 11% use propane, and only one of those arrangements has a utility on the other side of it.
Read this first
Gentry splits between mains and tank gas, at 36% on utility gas and 11% on bottled. Which one a property has decides where responsibility changes hands: a meter outlet marks the boundary on mains gas, while a tank puts the whole installation on the owner.
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 Gentry is supplied
The split here means a contractor may be quoting on either arrangement, and the first question is which. On mains it also matters which side of the meter the fault is on, because one side may not be a contractor job at all.
| Households in Gentry | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 36% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 11% |
| Electricity | 42% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 11% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 3,089 occupied housing units. Read it as fuel rather than as plumbing. The share on utility gas is how many houses burn it, which is the nearest thing published to how many have a service line. 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. Gentry sits 10 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. Averages are where this kind of difference disappears. The figures on this page are the town’s own for that reason.
Before anyone digs on the property
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts the effect of one free phone call plainly: someone who calls 8-1-1 before they dig has a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury, harm to the environment and even death.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask whether the job needs a permit and who is pulling it. Gas work is separately permitted in most jurisdictions and the answer should not be you.
Other Arkansas towns we route in
- Lincoln 35% mains gas · 11% tank propane
- Van Buren 47% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- West Fork 37% mains gas · 5% tank propane
- Prairie Grove 43% mains gas · 11% tank propane
- Winslow 4% mains gas · 34% 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. Non-emergency work in Gentry goes through this number as well.
Call (888) 752-8038