Gas Line Repair in Buckhorn, KY
Only 5% of households in Buckhorn use gas of any kind — 0% on mains and 5% on tank propane. Gas line work is the exception here rather than the rule.
Read this first
Only 5% of homes in Buckhorn use gas for heat. That makes a gas line the exception rather than the rule, and the ones that exist are usually tank supplies owned on the property instead of utility service lines ending at a meter.
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 Buckhorn is supplied
Most properties here have no service line and no meter. For the minority that do, everything on this site applies exactly as it does in a gas town.
| Households in Buckhorn | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 0% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 5% |
| Electricity | 55% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 40% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 206 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 Kentucky as a whole, 37% of households are on mains gas and 5% on tank propane. Buckhorn sits 37 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. The state number would tell you something true about the state and very little about here, which is why it is not the number above.
Before anyone digs on the property
Before any digging — a fence post as much as a foundation — call 8-1-1. It is a nationwide toll-free number, it costs nothing, and PHMSA puts the chance of avoiding an incident afterwards at 99 percent.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
If any part of the job is in the ground, ask when they are calling 8-1-1 and whether a private line may be in the way. Both answers should come before the excavation, not during it.
Other Kentucky towns we route in
- Bonnieville 2% mains gas · 14% tank propane
- Magnolia 12% mains gas · 21% tank propane
- West Van Lear 0% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Eastview 0% mains gas · 23% tank propane
- Oil Springs 10% mains gas · 17% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Kentucky
Kentucky licenses are issued by the Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction, Division of Plumbing, 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. Any Buckhorn job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
Call (888) 752-8038