Utility contacts to verify before work
Investor-owned utility
Evergy Kansas
- Service area
- Investor-owned electric service in eastern and central Kansas, including Kansas City-area suburbs, Topeka, Lawrence, Wichita, Manhattan, and many rural towns.
- Contractor / service coordination
- https://www.evergy.com/
- 811 / call before you dig
- https://www.kansasonecall.com/
Gas utility
Kansas Gas Service
- Service area
- Natural gas distribution utility serving Kansas communities including Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, Salina, Pittsburg, and many smaller cities.
- Contractor / service coordination
- https://www.kansasgasservice.com/
- 811 / call before you dig
- https://www.kansasonecall.com/
Municipal utility
Kansas City Board of Public Utilities
- Service area
- Municipal electric and water utility for Kansas City, Kansas, and selected Wyandotte County service areas.
- Contractor / service coordination
- https://www.bpu.com/
- 811 / call before you dig
- https://www.kansasonecall.com/
Electric co-op
Victory Electric Cooperative
- Service area
- Member-owned electric cooperative serving southwest Kansas, including Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Edwards, Kiowa, Haskell, and nearby counties.
- Contractor / service coordination
- https://www.victoryelectric.net/
- 811 / call before you dig
- https://www.kansasonecall.com/
Water utility
WaterOne
- Service area
- Public water utility serving Johnson County communities including Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Shawnee, Leawood, Prairie Village, and Mission.
- Contractor / service coordination
- https://www.waterone.org/
- 811 / call before you dig
- https://www.kansasonecall.com/
When to call which utility
Use this Kansas utility map before a job changes a meter, service mast, service drop, gas appliance, water line, trench, driveway, sewer lateral, or exterior structure. For electric outages, meter pulls, temporary power, service upgrades, underground-to-overhead changes, or a panel job that requires a utility disconnect, start with the electric utility assigned to the address: Evergy Kansas, Kansas City Board of Public Utilities and Victory Electric Cooperative. Rural addresses often sit in cooperative territory even when the nearest city is served by an investor-owned or municipal utility, so verify the premise before an electrician schedules the cutover. For natural-gas odors, hit lines, meter relocations, pressure questions, or appliance conversions, stop work and call the gas utility or 911 from a safe distance when there is an immediate leak; use Kansas Gas Service for the listed gas distribution territory. Water utilities such as WaterOne coordinate taps, meters, backflow requirements, main shutoffs, hydrant use, and service-line ownership questions. Municipal utilities may bundle electric, gas, water, wastewater, and stormwater, so one counter can control several approvals. Before any excavation, boring, fence post, sign, tree planting, drainage, sewer, or water-service work, file the 811 ticket through https://www.kansasonecall.com/ and wait for marks or positive response. The utility marks public facilities; the contractor still needs private locating for owner-installed lighting, irrigation, propane, septic, yard drains, and lines beyond the meter.
811 comes before utility-side work
File a locate request before trenching, boring, planting, fencing, drainage work, sewer work, or water-service changes. Utility marks do not replace private locating on owner-installed lines.
Source: ProFix Editorial Team. Last updated 2026-06-09. Utility territories can change at parcel boundaries; verify the premise address with the utility and local 811 system before scheduling work.