Septic records and services in Horseheads, New York

In Chemung County, New York, which covers Horseheads, we have measured 10,746 parcels on septic and 18,749 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Horseheads on its own and this page does not estimate one.

What Horseheads is, in the records

Horseheads is a village in Chemung County, New York. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 42.168632, -76.829658 and its land area at 3.89 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the village level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Horseheads

Our collection for Chemung County, New York is small, at 11 septic records. Treat it as a starting point for a Horseheads property rather than a search that settles the question. The county is genuinely mixed: 10,746 of 29,495 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Horseheads address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal, but reaching the documents needs an account or a login, so budget for that step rather than expecting an open search.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Horseheads?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Chemung County, New York, which covers Horseheads, we have measured 10,746 parcels on septic and 18,749 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Horseheads on its own and this page does not estimate one.

Which county is Horseheads in?

Horseheads is in Chemung County, New York.

Records and services around Horseheads

• Chemung County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• New York septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• New York septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Horseheads

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Horseheads’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 14845 (99% of the village)
• ZIP 14903 (1% of the village)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Horseheads.

• Horseheads North — 2.3 mi
• Elmira Heights — 2.9 mi
• Big Flats — 4.1 mi
• Pine Valley — 4.4 mi
• Breesport — 4.9 mi
• Elmira — 5.3 mi
• West Elmira — 5.6 mi
• Millport — 6.9 mi
• Southport — 7.2 mi
• Erin — 8.2 mi
• South Corning — 10.9 mi
• Odessa — 11.7 mi
• Corning — 11.7 mi
• Wellsburg — 11.9 mi
• Montour Falls — 12.5 mi
• Riverside — 12.8 mi
• Painted Post — 13.5 mi
• Van Etten — 14.3 mi
• Watkins Glen — 14.8 mi
• Gang Mills — 15.3 mi
• Coopers Plains — 15.8 mi
• Burdett — 17.2 mi
• Spencer — 17.4 mi
• Newfield — 17.8 mi
• Waverly — 18.3 mi
• West Danby — 18.6 mi
• Campbell — 19.2 mi
• Addison — 21.1 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Chemung County, New York.

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