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Who serves Barton County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Evergy and Liberty Utilities — Empire District, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Lamar, City of Liberal and City of Mindenmines also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Barton County, MO
Last significant outage: Sep 9, 2026 — peaked at 416 customers, restored in ~48 min (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 9, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Barton County, MO
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
79 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~4,086 customers out in May 2018, restored after about 48 min. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Barton County include Lamar, Golden City, Liberal, Mindenmines, Lamar Heights, Milford, Barton City and Burgess. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
