Craighead Electric Cooperative is a member-owned not-for-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States with district offices in Paragould, and Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.

[2] The Cooperative was organized in 1937 and the first 75 miles (121 km) of power lines[3] were energized in November 1938.

[4] The Cooperative serves portions of seven counties in the state of Arkansas, in a territory generally north and east of Jonesboro: Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Independence, Lawrence, Poinsett, and Randolph.

The Cooperative has more than 4,800 miles (7,700 km) of distribution lines, 18 substations, and services 30,000 meters.

In 2009, a winter storm damaged roughly 8,000 of the cooperative's utility poles causing power outages to 25,000 customers.