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Greater Kansas City Profile

Utilities

Electric

• AmerenUE
• Board of Public Utilities
• Farmers Electric Cooperative
• Gardner Electric
• Independence Power & Light
• KCP&L
• Leavenworth-Jefferson Electric Cooperative
• Osage Valley Electric Cooperative
• Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative
• United Electric Cooperative
• West Central Electric Cooperative
• Westar Energy

Natural Gas

• Black Hills Energy
• Atmos Energy
• Kansas Gas Service
• Missouri Gas Energy

TELECOM

• AT&T Inc.
• Birch Telecom
• CenturyTel
• Comcast
• Cox Communications
• Embarq
• liNKCity
• Qwest
• Sprint
• Sunflower Broadband
• SureWest Communications
• Time Warner Cable
• tw telecom
• Verizon Wireless

Water

• Supplied by municipal governments or special water districts

Sewer

• Provided by area municipalities

 

DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA

Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.