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The Mascoutah handbook

Living in Mascoutah, IL: what to set up and who to call

Mascoutah runs its own electric utility, City of Mascoutah. Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19 runs the public schools in Mascoutah.

I’m new in town

What to set up in Mascoutah, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.

Home services

Power, water and internet

Who to call to start service at a new address in Mascoutah.

Electricity

Power comes from City of Mascoutah

City of Mascoutah (City of Mascoutah - (IL)), a municipal utility, serves 94.0% of Mascoutah residents.

Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.

Drinking water · reported to EPA

Water comes from Mascoutah water system

The Mascoutah water system supplies almost all of Mascoutah. It buys treated surface water (EPA lists S L M Water Commission as seller) and serves 8,759 people in all.

No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 80% of the 5,012 systems serving 3,301–10,000 people.

Lead, 90th percentile4.9 ppb
015 ppb action level20

The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan 2026–Dec 2028, was 4.9 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. The highest in five years was 8.2 ppb. That’s higher than 91% of similar systems’ latest results.

The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report

EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0 (EPA’s estimate). Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. IL1630800.

Internet

4 home internet providers serve Mascoutah

100% of 3,355 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 89% can get fiber.

ProviderTechnologyAddressesFastest (Mbps)
SpectrumCable, Fiber98%1,000/1,000
FrontierFiber, DSL90%5,000/5,000
WisperFixed wireless91%400/30
VerizonFixed wireless28%300/20

FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.

Trash & recycling

Trash day in Mascoutah depends on your street

Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Mascoutah, from the town’s own site and the hauler or county pages it links to.

How trash works hereTown’s haulerAspen Waste Systems picks up at the curb for every homecityofmascoutah.gov
Trash dayBy addressDepends on your address
Pickup

Your pickup week

Drop-off center

City Yard Waste Drop-off Site

511 South 10th Street

Permit needed

We couldn’t find its opening hours.

Cost: $25 application fee for access card, valid March 1 to end of February; $10 replacement card

What goes in the recycling bin

Accepted at the curb

  • Tree and wood material
  • Leaves
  • Sticks
  • Grass clippings
  • Christmas trees free of all ornaments
Get the permit from the Town Clerk(618) 566-2964Mon-Thu 7 am-4:30 pm, or by appointment

From cityofmascoutah.gov, the town’s official site; aspenwaste.com, which cityofmascoutah.gov links to for trash, checked Oct 21, 2026. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .

Schools

Where your child goes to school

Public school districts and the school path by grade.

Mascoutah kids go to
PK–53 elementary schoolsDepends on your address
6–8Mascoutah Middle SchoolMascoutah Community Unit School District 19
9–12Mascoutah High SchoolMascoutah Community Unit School District 19

Mascoutah is in Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19.

ASchool gradeSee Schools →

U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.

Government & voting

Town hall and registering to vote

Who to call, and how to register.

Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Jun 2023; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.

ZIP codes & area codes

Mascoutah is in ZIP code 62258

ZIP codes where Mascoutah residents live, with the share of the town in each.

ZIPPost office nameShare of MascoutahZIP’s residents in Mascoutah
62258Mascoutah, IL100%84%
Area code618Wikidata

Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.

Everyday places

Getting around, the ER and the library

One line each; the subject pages have the rest.

ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.

Questions about living in Mascoutah

Who supplies Mascoutah’s drinking water, and has it had violations?

The Mascoutah water system (EPA ID IL1630800). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 80% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 4.9 ppb (Jan 2026–Dec 2028), against a 15 ppb action level.

Who provides electricity in Mascoutah?

City of Mascoutah (City of Mascoutah - (IL)), a municipal utility.

What internet providers serve Mascoutah?

Spectrum, Frontier, Wisper, Verizon (FCC, as of December 2025).

What ZIP codes are in Mascoutah?

62258. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.

What school district is Mascoutah in?

Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19.

How do I register to vote in Mascoutah?

In Illinois you can register online until 16 days before Election Day, in person up to and including Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 28 days before). Elections here are run by the St. Clair County Clerk. Check your registration at ova.elections.il.gov.

Sources & dates

Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.

  • Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
  • Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
  • Trash: Mascoutah’s own website (cityofmascoutah.gov) and the hauler or county pages it links to (aspenwaste.com), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
  • ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
  • Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
  • Registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
  • Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
  • Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.