North Arkansas Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative

Utility cooperative

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 headquartered in Salem, Arkansas

Salem, Fulton County, Arkansas

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, with district offices in Ash Flat

Ash Flat, Arkansas

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 and Mountain Home

Mountain Home, Arkansas

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, Arkansas.

The Cooperative was organized in 1939 and the first power lines were energized in June 1940.

The Cooperative serves portions of seven counties in the state of Arkansas

Arkansas

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, in a territory generally located in north central Arkansas.

Currently (as of September 2005) the Cooperative has more than 4,500 miles of distribution lines, 25 substations and services 33,000 accounts. It considers itself the fifth-largest rural electric cooperative in Arkansas.