not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources rgc resources news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message rgc resources type public traded as nasdaq rgco industry energy founded roanoke virginia 1912 headquarters roanoke virginia united states key people john s. d orazio director president and ceo products natural gas distribution revenue 122 million fiscal year ending september 30 2005 number of employees 137 website http www.rgcresources.com rgc resources is a company headquartered in roanoke virginia . it is a holding company that distributes and sells natural gas to customers in virginia and west virginia through its subsidiaries roanoke gas and bluefield gas . roanoke gas is the largest and most well known subsidiary which provides natural gas distribution to about 59 000 customers in the roanoke metropolitan area and some other nearby areas such as eastern montgomery county and western bedford county . rgc comes from the initials for roanoke gas company . bluefield gas serves the towns of bluefield virginia and bluefield west virginia and a small part of the surrounding area . in 1994 the highland gas marketing division was established to broker natural gas to several industrial transportation customers of roanoke gas and bluefield gas . history edit roanoke gas company was organized in 1883 one year after roanoke became a city . initially the gas was primarily used for street lights and to light businesses such as the hotel roanoke . gas was manufactured from coal with coke as a byproduct . in 1889 the roanoke gas company and the roanoke water works sold their assets to the roanoke gas and water company . on may 15 1912 the roanoke gas light company was formed when the gas and water companies were separated again . the number of gas customers expanded rapidly with roanoke s growth in the 1910s and 1920s . in 1939 the name of the gas company was changed from roanoke gas light company to roanoke gas company . natural gas via pipeline first came to roanoke homes and businesses on august 26 1950 . in 1993 the city of roanoke considered exercising an option under the franchise agreement with roanoke gas to assume ownership of the natural gas distribution lines through the city with the company only providing gas for the system . the company objected to this proposal and successfully organized public opposition which persuaded the city not to proceed . on july 1 1999 roanoke gas and its subsidiaries were reorganized into the rgc resources holding company . external links edit rgc resources alliance data yahoo finance information on rgc resources retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rgc resources & oldid 730988485 categories companies based in roanoke virginianatural gas companies of the united statescompanies listed on nasdaqhidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from march 2014all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 05 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view