Henderson County · Jackson & the southwest
Water, fire and mold damage restoration across Henderson County, Tennessee
What a Henderson County address runs into: the county's own offices sit in Lexington, plus the towns and the postal codes underneath.
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- ZIP codes
- 7
- Communities
- 7
- County seat
- Lexington
- Residential permit
- no county requirement outside the city limits
Counties are how permitting and licensing actually work in Tennessee, which is the reason this level of the site exists at all.
The General Assembly created Henderson County on 7 November 1821 and named it for Colonel James Henderson. Lexington is the seat. Twenty-eight thousand people live on five hundred and twenty square miles. Two sources give different accounts of Henderson's own life — one has him commanding Tennessee troops at New Orleans in January 1815, another has him dying in 1814 — and since those cannot both be right, this site does not print either.
Henderson County straddles the Tennessee Valley Divide. Water falling on the east side of it ends up in the Tennessee River; water falling on the west side ends up in the Mississippi. That is the single most useful geographic fact about this county and it is not decorative: it decides which watershed a property drains into and, on the eastern edge, whether the ground steps down into the Western Valley. The Beech River rises about five miles northwest of Lexington, runs thirty-eight miles, and crosses into Decatur County between Parsons and Decaturville.
Lexington Electric System is a municipal utility owned by the city, incorporated in 1939, and it is much bigger than the city — more than twenty-two thousand customers and nineteen hundred miles of line across Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Hardin and Henderson counties. City of Lexington Utilities separately supplies water, natural gas and wastewater. So a Lexington address has one organization for power and another for water, and a rural address forty miles away may still be on Lexington's power.
Towns with a page of their own
Also covered here
Listed rather than written up: the sources that make a town page worth anyone's time — utilities, inspections, drainage, storm history — are simply not published for these.
Each name below sits inside the purchased codes, page or no page.
Every covered ZIP code in Henderson County
There are 7 covered codes in Henderson County; the table says which services sit behind each.
Coverage in Henderson County is stored against seven postal codes. The seat, Lexington, answers to ZIP code 38351. Two of them sit under communities with a page of their own; the remaining five appear in the list above, their postal codes beside them. Mold removal is not purchased anywhere in this county, at any code, and no page here will suggest otherwise.
Getting to these places is a question of two or three routes. Scotts Hill off State Route 100 and State Route 114. The longest routine run in the county is Scotts Hill, 40 road miles from Jackson.
| ZIP | Community | Water | Fire | Mold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38328 | Darden | held | held | not held |
| 38345 | Huron | held | held | not held |
| 38351 | Lexington | held | held | not held |
| 38368 | Reagan | held | held | not held |
| 38371 | Sardis | held | held | not held |
| 38374 | Scotts Hill | held | held | not held |
| 38388 | Wildersville | held | held | not held |
Nineteen of the twenty-one counties on this site skipped the Home Improvement law, and this is one of them, which leaves the $25,000 threshold as the only licensing line that matters. The register sits at verify.tn.gov.
Permits and licensing in Henderson County
Henderson County has opted out of the residential building permit program. Lexington has not: the city runs its own codes office enforcing the 2024 International Building, Residential, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fuel Gas and Fire codes, which is a newer code cycle than most of its neighbors. A rebuild inside the city limits is permitted and inspected to a current code. The same rebuild a mile outside is not inspected by anybody unless the owner asks the state for a voluntary inspection, which has been possible since 2017.
There is no Home Improvement license requirement here. Above twenty-five thousand dollars the state contractor's license applies and can be checked at verify.tn.gov. In an opted-out county that lookup does more work than usual, because it is one of the few external checks left: no local inspector will be looking at the framing, and the owner is the only person in the chain with an interest in the work being right.
Anything here that reads as general has a longer version in the guides, written once for the whole division.
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