Septic records and services in Rutherford, Tennessee

In Gibson County, Tennessee, which covers Rutherford, we have measured 10,002 parcels on septic and 10,521 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Rutherford on its own and this page does not estimate one.

What Rutherford is, in the records

Rutherford is a town in Gibson County, Tennessee. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 36.122081, -88.992851 and its land area at 2.30 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the town 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 Rutherford

We have not yet collected septic documents from Gibson County, Tennessee, so for a Rutherford property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 10,002 of 20,523 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Rutherford address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.

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 Rutherford?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Gibson County, Tennessee, which covers Rutherford, we have measured 10,002 parcels on septic and 10,521 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Rutherford on its own and this page does not estimate one.

Which county is Rutherford in?

Rutherford is in Gibson County, Tennessee.

Records and services around Rutherford

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

ZIP codes that overlap Rutherford

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Rutherford’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 38369 (98% of the town)
• ZIP 38233 (2% of the town)

Nearest other places

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

• Dyer — 3.5 mi
• Kenton — 5.7 mi
• Yorkville — 7.2 mi
• Bradford — 10.4 mi
• Trenton — 10.6 mi
• Greenfield — 10.8 mi
• Sharon — 12.2 mi
• Trimble — 12.2 mi
• Obion — 14.0 mi
• Newbern — 15.5 mi
• Rives — 16.5 mi
• Martin — 16.9 mi
• Troy — 17.8 mi
• Gibson — 19.0 mi
• Dresden — 19.7 mi
• Milan — 19.7 mi
• Friendship — 20.3 mi
• Atwood — 20.8 mi
• Humboldt — 21.0 mi
• Union City — 21.3 mi
• Dyersburg — 22.1 mi
• Trezevant — 22.2 mi
• Gleason — 22.3 mi
• Hornbeak — 22.5 mi
• Gadsden — 23.9 mi
• Medina — 23.9 mi
• Fowlkes — 24.4 mi
• Alamo — 24.4 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 Gibson County, Tennessee.

Open the parcel map and design tool