Living in Brandsville, MO: what to set up and who to call
Tap water in most of Brandsville comes from Howell Oregon County Pwsd 2 South, which has a clean five-year EPA record (about 23% of systems its size had a health-based violation) and a latest lead result of 0.6 ppb. Power in Brandsville comes from Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, a cooperative utility rather than a private company.
I’m new in town
What to set up in Brandsville, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.
Power, water and internet
Who to call to start service at a new address in Brandsville.
Power comes from Howell-Oregon Elec Coop
Howell-Oregon Elec Coop (Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, Inc), a cooperative utility, serves all of Brandsville. Its homes paid an average of 13.1¢ per kWh in 2025, about $150 a month (its average across Missouri).
Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.
Water comes from Howell Oregon County Pwsd 2 South
Howell Oregon County Pwsd 2 South supplies Brandsville: about 87% of residents live in its service area. About 13% of homes are outside any mapped community water system, most likely on private wells, which EPA doesn’t regulate. It draws ground water and serves 180 people in all.
No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 77% of the 15,074 systems serving 101–500 people.
The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan 2023–Dec 2025, was 0.6 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. The highest in five years was 0.7 ppb. That’s lower than 52% 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. MO4024266.
Which providers serve Brandsville
This card will list the home internet providers the FCC’s National Broadband Map shows in Brandsville, the share of addresses that can get 100/20 Mbps and the share with fiber, with the map’s “as of” date.
Source to come: FCC Broadband Data Collection.
We don’t have Brandsville’s trash rules yet
Pickup rules, the dump and recycling in Brandsville.
Where your child goes to school
Public school districts and the school path by grade.
Brandsville is in Oregon-Howell R-III School District.
Test scores and every school: see Schools →U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.
Town hall and registering to vote
Who to call, and how to register.
Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Sep 2017; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Brandsville spans 2 ZIP codes
ZIP codes where Brandsville residents live, with the share of the town in each.
| ZIP | Post office name | Share of Brandsville | ZIP’s residents in Brandsville |
|---|---|---|---|
| 65775 | West Plains, MO | 56% | 0% |
| 65688 | Brandsville, MO | 44% | 100% |
Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.
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 Brandsville
Who supplies Brandsville’s drinking water, and has it had violations?
Howell Oregon County Pwsd 2 South (EPA ID MO4024266). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 77% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 0.6 ppb (Jan 2023–Dec 2025), against a 15 ppb action level.
Who provides electricity in Brandsville?
Howell-Oregon Elec Coop (Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, Inc), a cooperative utility. Its homes paid about 13.1¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).
What ZIP codes are in Brandsville?
65775 (56%), 65688 (44%), by share of residents. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.
What school district is Brandsville in?
Oregon-Howell R-III School District.
How do I register to vote in Brandsville?
In Missouri you can register online until 27 days before Election Day, in person until 27 days before Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 27 days before). Elections here are run by the Howell. Check your registration at voteroutreach.sos.mo.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: OpenStreetMap, Geofabrik extract of Oct 9, 2026. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- 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 Nov 18, 2024 (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): pending.