HILCO Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Itasca, Texas, United States, with a district office in Whitney, Texas. The Cooperative was organized in 1936 as Hill County Electric Cooperative. The Cooperative serves portions of Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, and McLennan, Texas, in a territory ranging generally from south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to north of Waco, Texas. Currently (as of 2006 year-end) the Cooperative has 2,800 miles of distribution lines and 21,644 meters.