A generic checklist tells you to "set up utilities". This one tells you who supplies the water at that address, which county office takes your title, which documents the school system will ask for, and when to do each one relative to your move date.
28 communities across Madison, Limestone and Morgan counties — each one keyed to its own utility, school and licensing rules.
We'll email the checklist for your address with dates counted back from your move day, so you can work through it instead of rebuilding it.
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Huntsville Utilities is the city-owned utility: it provides electricity across all of Madison County and a small part of Marshall County, and also water and natural gas, serving over 200,000 electric, roughly 100,000 water and about 56,000 gas customers by its own count. Inside Madison city limits, water and sewer come from the city utility instead.
At a Huntsville city address, electric, water, sewer and gas are all on one account, so it is one call and one start date — book it for the day you take possession, not the day you unpack. County addresses are the ones that split: a water utility district or a private well, plus a contracted trash hauler.
Fiber from AT&T and Google Fiber covers much of the city, with cable service from Xfinity and WOW in other areas — and availability changes street by street, which is why the honest answer is to check the address rather than the city.
Address-level check: FCC National Broadband Map
Title and tag work is handled by the county licence department, not a state office — Madison County License Department for most addresses here. Bring the title, proof of insurance and identification. Alabama renews registration in your birth month, so your first renewal date is set by your birthday, not your move.