Gas Line Repair in North Benton, OH
North Benton runs on both: 18% mains gas, 10% tank propane, 28% on gas of some kind. The two arrangements answer the ownership question completely differently.
Read this first
In North Benton, 18% of homes are on mains gas and 10% 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 North Benton 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 North Benton | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 18% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 10% |
| Electricity | 45% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 9% |
| Wood and everything else | 17% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 575 occupied housing units. What B25040 measures is the heating fuel, not the connection. It is the closest published proxy for whether there is a buried service line here, and it is a proxy. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Ohio as a whole, 62% of households are on mains gas and 5% on tank propane. North Benton sits about level with the state on propane; its mains share carries too wide a margin of error to compare. A state figure would flatten exactly that difference, which is the reason these pages are built town by town instead.
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 what is being left behind: where the new pipe runs, at what depth, and whether you will get a photograph of the trench before it is filled. That record will not exist anywhere else and you will want it eventually.
Other Ohio towns we route in
- Niles 78% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Milford Center 43% mains gas · 29% tank propane
- Millersport 63% mains gas · 13% tank propane
- Deerfield 37% mains gas · 11% tank propane
- Ostrander 9% mains gas · 50% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Ohio
Ohio licenses are issued by the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board, Department of Commerce, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Ohio licenses commercial plumbing contractors at state level; residential-only work is generally regulated locally.
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 North Benton job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
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