Johnson County KS 2008 Siren Map

[md5]

Seems that the 2008 PDF of the siren coverage for Johnson county Kansas is up now. It can be viewed here: I'm going through Google maps and using TrafficView to pinpoint sirens here and there. I am just a bit discouraged to record sirens in this county now since much of them are being updated to the 2001 series.

Here's a little list of some that I have mapped so far. If you want to waste some time checking out these links, have at it. Much of the ones that are not labeled are 2001's.

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link - Rock blasting area, model X series. Quite rusted.
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link -older 2001?
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can't miss this one (EOWS): link
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link - In a flood plain. If you ask me, this sirens coverage range is highly reduced.
link - Just north of the siren above. not even more than half a mile.
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link - Nice placing of a siren [2001], no?:P
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Found this little gem: link - 2t22, if I am not mistaken.
link - Box of thunderbolt? Quality is too low to be able to tell. Will try to later on this year to snap a picture of it. Took a while to find on Google Streetview, so I am sure it might be a bugger to find during the summer when all the trees have bloomed out.
link - Looking at the old power lines there, I'm pretty sure there was a xt22 type siren series there.
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link - Nice and snug next to the houses.
Apparently according to the 2008 siren map, there is a siren here: link - guessing they are going for the silent effect on this? :p Westwood Hills is where this siren is apparently at. W1 is its name on the map at top right. Looked all over with StreetView, all i could find in that relative area was that pole which would be the pinpoint of that W1 dot.
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[red04stanggt]

That EOWS over there in Leawood/Olathe is the one I was talking about awhile back I wanted to record.

[md5]

That EOWS over there in Leawood/Olathe is the one I was talking about awhile back I wanted to record.

Wanted to go out to that one this past week, but I slept in a bit too far...

[kswx29]

It's about time they updated their coverage maps. I will have to re-do mine when i get home. Looks like there is a few new sirens, altho adobe crashed on me so i will have to wait.

[md5]

It's about time they updated their coverage maps. I will have to re-do mine when i get home. Looks like there is a few new sirens, altho adobe crashed on me so i will have to wait.

I've also been noticing that they are putting sirens out in my area where there is literally no one out here. Guessing that they are wanting to go for a full coverage zones.

[thunderbolt69]

Where you stated about the older 2001 it is the old roundback design.

[md5]

Where you stated about the older 2001 it is the old roundback design.

Well, when I zoomed in on this one in particular it was a square, not a rounded or rectangle back box. Only rounded 2001's I know of in this county (right now) is this siren: [Linked here] and the one off of i35 near Olathe Medical Center by the home Depot.

[EOWS 612]

Hate to tell this to all you Thunderbolt fans out there, the T-bolt an 83 rd and Ensley Ln. has been replaced, with the one and only 2001-130 . I'm on edge because all around that EOWS 612, are shiny new 2001-130s. What a shocker, the entire city is going to 2001s, how boring. KCMO was the first to go over to 2001s, and whatever they do, the surrounding area follows. All that the sirens on the MO side that are not 2001s will prolly be replaced with 2001s. BUT, I've heard rumors that Sugar Creek has Whelens !

[md5]

Hate to tell this to all you Thunderbolt fans out there, the T-bolt an 83 rd and Ensley Ln. has been replaced, with the one and only 2001-130 . I'm on edge because all around that EOWS 612, are shiny new 2001-130s. What a shocker, the entire city is going to 2001s, how boring. KCMO was the first to go over to 2001s, and whatever they do, the surrounding area follows. All that the sirens on the MO side that are not 2001s will prolly be replaced with 2001s. BUT, I've heard rumors that Sugar Creek has Whelens !

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Much of the sirens south of the i70 corridor at Kansas - Missouri state line are whelen. North of i70, at the border at last check were Federal Siren. Kansas City, Kansas side of things are FS too.

[kswx29]

If only the county was like Leavenworth County, they have all of their original Thunderbolts, and i have only seen 2001s in places where new growth has happened. Shawnee County also have most of its original Thunderbolts, with the exception of 2.