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Gregg & Upshur counties
Vora 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. Vora checks your address when you ask.
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.
Water supplier
City of Gladewater
Sewer
City side, your side
Plumbing permits
City of Gladewater Building Inspector
Local 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