Home Line in Gladewater.
Gladewater is in Gregg & Upshur counties. Here is who supplies the water, who fixes which side of the meter, and how old the houses are, with a source for every fact.
About 6 in 10 homes here were built before 1980.
More than half of Gladewater’s homes were built before 1980. Before a big repair, ask the plumber what your supply and drain pipes are made of.
- Population
- 6,306Census Bureau estimate, 2025; 6,134 in the 2020 census
- Median home built
- 1976US Census Bureau, American Community Survey
None of the 26 is based in Gladewater.
8 are in Gregg & Upshur counties. The state register lists 3 licensed plumbing companies in Gladewater. We check your address when you call.
Gladewater, plainly.
- County
- Gregg & Upshur counties
- Water supplier
- City of GladewaterCan depend on your address; check your water bill
- ZIP codes
- 75647ZIP areas covering most of the town
Some problems aren’t a plumber’s: the city’s own numbers
Sewer
City side, your side
Typically, the responsibility delineation between upper lateral (home owners) and lower lateral (City) is at the City cleanout., which shall be at least 15 feet from the home or business in a city easement or 3 feet from the curb or street on public right-of-w
SourcePlumbing permits
City of Gladewater Building Inspector
No phone published; see the city’s permits page.
SourceLocal notes: water, freezes, permits
- Where the water comes from: CITY OF GLADEWATER is Surface water. Source
- The freeze of February 2021: Boil-water notice; some residents without water and the city distributed water; on Feb 22, 2021 service was improving but the boil notice remained (still in place Feb 23); residential leaks appeared as lines thawed. Source
- Freezing nights: 35.1 nights a year at or below 32°F at Longview East Texas Regional Airport (NOAA normals, 1991–2020). Pipes in attics, crawl spaces and outside walls are the ones that burst. Source