Selmer, McNairy County
Water Damage Restoration in Selmer, Tennessee
Water Damage Restoration across Selmer and its McNairy County surrounds — the whole of the coverage sits inside ZIP code 38375.
Call (731) 600-1238 What water damage restoration involves
- Service
- Water damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38375
- County
- McNairy
Where this work has not been bought at an address, the page says so at the top instead of leaving it for the last paragraph.
The Hatchie starts in this county, which is first on the state's list of designated Hatchie scenic-river counties, so the river here is a headwater stream rather than the wide swamp river it becomes downstream. Cypress Creek runs through the town as well. Water, sewer and natural gas all come from the Selmer Utility Division, operating since 1 January 1934 and supplying parts of four counties. One organization for three services is a real advantage during a plumbing loss, and it is not the arrangement in the towns nearby.
There is no crest gauge inside the county line, so nothing published tells an owner how high water has come at a given address; the nearest reference on this river is downstream at Bolivar, and it describes a very different reach. Local memory is the record instead. April 2025 brought the county a flood and a tornado in the same period, and a state estimate put McNairy County's damage from the two together at about $30.3 million. Flood questions here get answered from the property rather than from a gauge chart.
Everything the postal service calls this place is covered: ZIP code 38375. The authority for building work here is the Town of Selmer building inspector on North Second Street, whatever a contractor tells you about it over the phone.
What decides this job at this address
- Water damage purchased at
- 38375
- Ground drains toward
- the upper Hatchie River and Cypress Creek
- Shutoff and meter
- the Selmer Utility Division, running since 1 January 1934 and supplying natural gas, water and sewer to parts of four counties
- Class and category decided by
- what the water touched and where it came from, before any equipment is set
- Routes through the town
- Highway 64, Highway 45 and State Route 15
- Road distance
- 45 miles from Jackson
- Permit issued by
- the Town of Selmer building inspector on North Second Street
Because the town runs its own building inspector, on North Second Street, the paperwork side of a water job here is straightforward in a way it is not in the county around it — that office issues zoning, codes, building, sign and floodplain permits. The floodplain permit is the one that catches people out on a rebuild near a creek. Power is Pickwick Electric Cooperative, gas and water are the utility division's, and the shutoff sequence is short. Drying gets documented against a permit rather than against nothing.
What the building stock here does
Two ages of building are stacked on each other here. The town has been rebuilt in parts twice in three years by weather rather than by choice, so a large share of the roofs, windows and interior finishes are recent work over structure that is late-Victorian or mid-century. During a water loss that matters, because the materials getting wet are new while the paths water follows through the building are old. New wallboard over an old cavity dries at a different rate than the framing behind it, and the two have to be read separately.
Soot testing is a wipe on an inconspicuous area first. The result decides the chemistry, and the chemistry decides whether a surface gets one attempt or several.
Water damage work by type
The water damage method is regional; the Selmer conditions are not. The pages are split along that line deliberately.
Also at this address
- Fire damage in SelmerPickwick Electric Cooperative is headquartered in this town and serves the entire county — about 21,291 meters over nearly 2,495 miles of line, reaching into Chester, Hardeman and Hardin as well.
- Everything covered in SelmerThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Have a rough year of construction. A 1955 house and a 2015 house on the same street fail in entirely different places and are dried by entirely different means.
The part of this that cannot wait is the shutoff. Everything after that, the scope and the equipment and the insurance conversation, can be handled in daylight by people who have slept.