When will the power be back in Merriam, KS?
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Merriam is a city of about 11,560 residents in Johnson County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Merriam by name, so this page reports the Johnson County county-wide view, which covers Merriam. If a serving utility does name Merriam during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
Around Merriam: the closest other places we track are Mission, about 2 miles to the east; Prairie Village, about 4 miles to the southeast; Shawnee, about 6 miles to the west; and Lenexa, about 7 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Kansas City (8 mi N); Leawood (8 mi SE); Overland Park (9 mi S); Kansas City, MO (10 mi NE); Olathe (12 mi SW); Raytown, MO (12 mi E); Grandview, MO (13 mi SE); and Gladstone, MO (15 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Smithville, MO (27 mi); northeast toward Liberty, MO (21 mi); east toward Independence, MO (19 mi); southeast toward Belton, MO (16 mi); south toward Spring Hill (19 mi); southwest toward Gardner (19 mi); west toward Lawrence (31 mi); and northwest toward Lansing (19 mi).
Who serves Merriam?
We track live outage data from Evergy in Johnson County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Gardner also serves parts of Johnson County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
County context: across all of Johnson County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 3.8 hr. The full record for Johnson County
