What are the opening hours?

Monday 8am - 12pm 1pm - 5pm Tuesday 8am - 12pm 1pm - 5pm Wednesday 8am - 12pm 1pm - 5pm Thursday 8am - 12pm 1pm - 5pm Friday 8am - 12pm 1pm - 5pm

Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative

Name: Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative
Address: 1564 S 1000 Rd, Council Grove, KS, 66846, US
Telephone: (620) 767-5144
Price range: Not applicable

Home
United States
Council Grove, KS
Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative

Founded in 1938, Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative provides electric service into ten counties Back then rural areas had a problem.

On July 15, 1938, Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative was founded. They did not have access to electricity, so a group of neighbors and friends set out to form a cooperative solution. At the same time, folks in 1,000 other rural communities throughout the United States were doing the same thing, creating rural electric cooperatives. Interestingly, folks in urban areas were also forming co-

ops – not electric or farm co-ops, but credit unions and housing co-ops. Cooperatives in all forms get started when the “market” fails to offer a good or service or does so at prices few people can afford. So, back in the time of the Great Depression, when banks did not have much interest in extending credit to people of modest means, people did the same thing as the founders of Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative. They got together, with their friends and neighbors, collected a $5 membership fee (and remember in the 1930s, five bucks was real money) and formed more than 23,000 credit unions. They solved their problem with a cooperative solution. Today, mostly due to mergers between credit unions, there are about 6,800 credit unions with nearly 100 million members.

Address

1564 S 1000 Rd
Council Grove, KS
66846

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 12pm
	1pm - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 12pm
	1pm - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 12pm
	1pm - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 12pm
	1pm - 5pm
Friday	8am - 12pm
	1pm - 5pm

Telephone

(620) 767-5144

Website

http://flinthillsrec.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative:

Shortcuts

Address
Telephone
Opening Hours
Alerts
Contact The Business
Claim ownership or report listing

Want your business to be the top-listed Business in Council Grove?

About Us

On July 15, 1938, Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative was founded. Back then rural areas had a problem. They did not have access to electricity, so a group of neighbors and friends set out to form a cooperative solution. At the same time, folks in 1,000 other rural communities throughout the United States were doing the same thing, creating rural electric cooperatives. Interestingly, folks in urban areas were also forming co-ops – not electric or farm co-ops, but credit unions and housing co-ops.

Cooperatives in all forms get started when the “market” fails to offer a good or service or does so at prices few people can afford. So, back in the time of the Great Depression, when banks did not have much interest in extending credit to people of modest means, people did the same thing as the founders of Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative. They got together, with their friends and neighbors, collected a $5 membership fee (and remember in the 1930s, five bucks was real money) and formed more than 23,000 credit unions. They solved their problem with a cooperative solution. Today, mostly due to mergers between credit unions, there are about 6,800 credit unions with nearly 100 million members.

Meanwhile, in New York City, folks needed to find safe and affordable housing. So, what was the answer? Form a housing co-op. And they did by the hundreds. Today, there are more than 3,000 housing co-ops nationwide. While most are located in urban areas, they are a growing solution in rural areas, and a number of mobile home parks are being converted to cooperative ownership.

Is reliable child care a concern? There are more than 1,000 pre-school cooperatives operating in the U.S. While some require parents to volunteer a certain number of hours per month, these cooperatives have been a great solution for the vast majority of families when both parents need to work outside the home.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are even co-ops covering funeral needs. By joining the co-op, which has pre-negotiated the price of the funeral based on your preferences, consumers can save up to 40 percent off the average cost of a funeral and burial. From cradle to grave, co-ops have you covered.

Perhaps you own a small business and are looking to lower the cost of the goods you sell, or maybe you are one of 50,000 small business owners who is a member of a purchasing cooperative. Through cooperatives, small locally owned businesses are able to compete against big-box retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Dollars that are spent locally stay in the community six times longer than dollars spent at stores owned outside the community, according to the Small Business Administration.

So, what do all these businesses have in common? Local people coming together to solve a problem with a cooperative solution. One of the reasons co-ops are popular in so many different industries is that they answer the question, “What’s in it for me?” and provide a solution that also serves we, the community. So the next time your area is facing a problem, think cooperatively and chances are, there will be a cooperative solution.