About Gas Belt Sealcoating
Gas Belt Sealcoating takes its name from the stretch of central Indiana that boomed after natural gas was struck near Anderson in March of 1887, when this was the Queen City of the Gas Belt and Alexandria, Elwood, and Frankton grew up on the same field. The gas ran out by 1912, the factories stayed, and General Motors turned Anderson into a manufacturing town of twenty plants and roughly 25,000 workers by 1974. The neighborhoods those jobs built are the neighborhoods whose driveways need attention now, which is why the history is on this page at all.
This site is an independent local resource for asphalt maintenance in Anderson and the surrounding Madison County towns, and it connects property owners with local sealcoating crews. It does not sell sealer. What it does is explain the work in enough detail that you can read a quote and know what is missing from it, and it publishes the local climate, soil, and housing numbers that actually drive the decision, with sources, on the [Anderson pavement data page](/anderson-pavement-data). If you are trying to decide whether your driveway is worth maintaining at all, start with the [guide](/why-anderson-driveways-fail), or go back to the [Anderson sealcoating overview](/).