Gas Line Repair in Huntsville, AR
Tank propane heats 24% of homes in Huntsville. There is no service line here in the federal sense, which sounds like a technicality and is actually the whole difference.
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24% of households in Huntsville use bottled or tank gas, which puts the supply on the property rather than under the street. There is no utility service line and no meter boundary: the tank, the regulator and the line to the house belong to the owner or the gas supplier by contract.
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 Huntsville is supplied
A tank, a regulator, and buried line between them and the house. All of it is the property owner’s, and none of it sits under the federal service line definition that governs a mains connection.
That makes the buried run private buried line — which is exactly the sort a standard locate may not mark before somebody digs.
| Households in Huntsville | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 29% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 24% |
| Electricity | 30% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 1% |
| Wood and everything else | 16% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 3,614 occupied housing units. The table counts heating fuel rather than pipework. A house on mains gas almost certainly has a service line; the Census does not say so directly and neither do we. 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. Huntsville sits 18 points below the state on mains and 19 points above 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
Excavation damage remains the leading cause of pipeline incidents according to PHMSA. That is not a fact about pipelines so much as a fact about gardening, and the prevention is one free call to 8-1-1 before the first spade goes in.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask how much gas work they actually do, not whether they can. Gas is separately licensed in most jurisdictions and plenty of capable plumbers do very little of it.
Other Arkansas towns we route in
- Springdale 54% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Canehill 3% mains gas · 27% tank propane
- Rogers 61% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Prairie Grove 43% mains gas · 11% tank propane
- Gentry 36% mains gas · 11% 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 Huntsville goes through this number as well.
Call (888) 752-8038