Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Wamego, KS

Wamego is the largest city in Pottawatomie County in northeast Kansas, although the county seat is Westmoreland.

Wamego was platted in 1866 and named for a Potawatomi Native American chief; its first post office opened in October 1866 and the city was incorporated in 1869.

Wamego sits on the north bank of the Kansas River at the junction of U.S. Route 24 and K-99, about 14 miles east of Manhattan, and is part of the Manhattan metropolitan area.

As of the 2020 census, Wamego had a population of 4,841 living in 1,932 households, and the city has grown in every census since 1920.

Wamego is famous far beyond Kansas for its Oz Museum, founded in April 2004, which displays more than 25,000 Wizard of Oz artifacts on permanent loan from Friar Johnpaul Cafiero.

The museum sparked an 'Oz Cluster' of themed businesses downtown — including the Oz Winery and Toto's Tacoz — plus painted Toto statues scattered around town, and every first weekend of October Wamego throws its annual OZtoberFEST celebration.

Wamego City Park, a 12-acre park in the center of town, holds the Dutch Mill, a stone windmill built in 1879 and moved into the park in 1925, along with the Wamego Historical Museum, the Prairie Town Village of relocated 1800s buildings, a swimming pool, and a fishing pond.

Wamego is the birthplace of Walter P. Chrysler, who went on to found the Chrysler Corporation; his family moved to Ellis, Kansas, soon after he was born.

Students in Wamego attend Wamego USD 320 schools, and Highland Community College operates a branch facility in the city.

A Solar Turbines factory, wholly owned by Caterpillar Inc., is one of Wamego's major employers, while the surrounding Kansas River valley farms grow alfalfa, sweet corn, maize, and wheat.