Border States

Border States supplies electrical supplies and related products to construction, industrial and utility customers. Since 1952, when two entrepreneurs founded Border States to serve the electric utility industry, we've grown into a product and supply chain powerhouse. Today, our more than 2,200 employee-owners provide products, materials management solutions, and delivery and logistics expertise to tens of thousands of customers across diverse industries including: Commercial, Datacomm, Education, Electrical construction, Government, Health care, Industrial, Mining, Oil and gas, Plumbing, Renewable energy, Utility.

Dodge City Community College manages a library and computer laboratories. The college offers degree programs in business technology, cosmetology, criminal justice, early childhood education, farm and ranch management, and fine and performing arts. It manages an adult learning center that administers the English as a Second Language program. Dodge City Community College also provides athletic programs in baseball, basketball, volleyball and football. The college has a bookstore that offers teddy bears, mugs, holders and sweatshirt blankets. In addition, it provides financing and housing solutions. The college additionally offers instruction in graphic design, mathematics, nursing and science. Dodge City Community College provides continuing education programs.

Based in Dodge City, Kan., The Victory Electric Cooperative Association Inc. has been operational since 1947. The Touchstone Energy cooperative caters to the electrical and Internet needs of the agricultural, rural and urban customers of southwest Kansas and surrounding counties. The Victory Electric Cooperative Association Inc. has a broad consumer base of diversified loads, ranging from industrial, commercial and irrigation loads of over 2,700 miles of transmission and distribution line. Some of the partners of the firm are Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc., Kansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. and Western Kansas Rural Economic Development Alliance.