Gas Line Repair in Essie, KY
No household in Essie was recorded as heating with gas, mains or bottled, in the survey behind this page. Where a supply does exist it will be a tank on the property rather than a utility line under the street.
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Gas of any kind is absent from the survey record for Essie: not one household there was found heating with mains gas or with bottled. Gas work is unusual as a result, and where a supply does exist it is likelier to be a tank on the property than a utility service line 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 Essie 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 Essie | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 0% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 0% |
| Electricity | 99% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 1% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 385 occupied housing units. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly. 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. Essie sits 37 points below the state on mains and 5 points below it on propane. That is the gap a statewide number papers over, and the reason the figures above are this town’s rather than the state’s.
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
- Parksville 0% mains gas · 9% tank propane
- Simpsonville 44% mains gas · 18% tank propane
- Meally 72% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Ravenna 25% mains gas · 18% tank propane
- Stanton 30% mains gas · 7% 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. Other Essie requests are covered by the same line.
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