Titan Tow & Repair covers Jackson County, Missouri, from the county seats of Kansas City and Independence out to Blue Springs, Lee's Summit and Oak Grove. We run heavy-, medium- and light-duty towing, winch-outs and recovery, and roadside truck and tire repair 24 hours a day on I-70, I-435, I-470 and Route 291, dispatched from our yard in Liberty, Missouri.
I-70 is the county's main east-west interstate, running from downtown Kansas City through Independence, Blue Springs and Grain Valley to Oak Grove, with US-40 beside it as the way around when it closes. I-435 circles Kansas City, passes just west of Independence and meets I-470 and I-49 at the Grandview Triangle. I-470 joins Route 291 at I-70 in Independence and carries it south into Lee's Summit, where I-470, US-50 and Route 291 form a triangle of highways around the city center. To the north, Route 291 crosses the Missouri River on the Liberty Bend Bridge at Sugar Creek, and US-24 links Kansas City, Independence and Buckner along the river side of the county.
Off the interstates the county is a mix of river bluffs, lakes and small towns. Along the north edge, Sugar Creek climbs from river-bottom industrial land and the old refinery site up onto its bluff, and Sibley looks over the Missouri from the north-east corner, on the BNSF main line and its Sibley Railroad Bridge. Boating on Longview Lake, and on Blue Springs Lake and Lake Jacomo in Fleming Park, puts boat trailers and campers on local roads, while Lake Lotawana and Lake Tapawingo are whole towns built around their lakes. Route 7 runs past the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. On the interstate, give us the direction and mile marker; at a lake, name the lake and the gate or access road you came in by.
| County | Jackson County, Missouri |
|---|---|
| County seat | Independence and Kansas City |
| Main roads | I-70, I-435, I-470, I-49, US-24, US-50, Route 291 |
| Towns covered | 18 |
| Hours | 24 hours a day, every day |
| Dispatched from | 2751 Liberty Landing Rd., Liberty, MO |
| Dispatch | (816) 888-8732 |
Kansas City, which shares county-seat status with Independence, carries the county's thickest web of highways: I-35 and I-70 meet at the downtown loop, I-435 circles the whole city, and US-71 runs south to the Grandview Triangle. Below the bluffs, the West Bottoms and the river industrial district sit where the Kansas River meets the Missouri.
Towing in Kansas CityIndependence, one of the two county seats, has I-70 interchanges at Noland Road and at Route 291, where I-470 and Route 291 head south together. US-24 passes the Truman Library along the north edge of the city, Truman Road (Route 12) links the Square with I-435, and Route 7 leaves for Blue Springs past the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant.
Towing in IndependenceLee's Summit sits inside a triangle formed by I-470, US-50 and Route 291, with Route 150 crossing the south side toward Greenwood and Route 350 heading north-west to Raytown. Longview Lake on the dammed Little Blue River and the regional airport north of downtown make good reference points. The "summit" is the railroad's high point between Kansas City and St. Louis.
Towing in Lee's SummitBlue Springs is the large I-70 suburb east of Kansas City, with interchanges at Route 7 and Adams Dairy Parkway. Route 7 is its north-south highway, entering at Pink Hill Road and leaving at Colbern Road for Lake Lotawana, and US-40 crosses from Bolin Road into Grain Valley. Fleming Park holds Blue Springs Lake and Lake Jacomo.
Towing in Blue SpringsRaytown is a Kansas City suburb on the old Santa Fe Trail, named for William Ray, whose blacksmith shop stood where a marker now sits at 63rd Street and Raytown Road. Raytown Road itself came from an 1860 petition for a road between southern Jackson County and Independence, and parts of the original are still in use; its old ford over the Little Blue River now lies under Longview Lake. Route 350 enters from the Lee's Summit side. Give a cross street along with the address.
Grandview borders Kansas City on the south and lies along US-71, which runs with I-49 south toward Belton. The city takes its name from the view off its raised town site, and the Grandview Triangle, where I-435, I-470 and I-49 meet, carries the name too. Industrial parks line US-71.
Towing in GrandviewGrain Valley grew up after the Chicago and Alton Railroad came through in 1878, bypassing Pink Hill and Stony Point. It sits on I-70 between Blue Springs and Oak Grove, with US-40 and Route AA as its other roads, and it is home to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
Towing in Grain ValleyOak Grove, originally called Lickskillet and named for a grove of oaks near the first town site, is Jackson County's eastern I-70 town and reaches over the line into Lafayette County. Its truck stops sit at the Route H interchange, and US-40 is the fallback road when the interstate is shut.
Towing in Oak GroveGreenwood, south-east of Lee's Summit, is divided by its rail line: houses and a small downtown on the south-west side, light woods, open fields and small ponds to the north-east. Route 150 is its road west, linking it with southern Lee's Summit, Grandview and State Line Road at Overland Park. A very small part of the city lies in Cass County.
Sugar Creek, split between Jackson and Clay counties, starts where the Liberty Bend Bridge brings Route 291 across the Missouri River into the north-east of town. Its north edge held the Standard Oil refinery, closed since 1982, and US-24 forms part of its border with Independence.
Towing in Sugar CreekBuckner is a US-24 town in north-east Jackson County, north of Grain Valley, linked by that highway with Independence and Kansas City. It began in 1875 as a depot town on the Wyandotte, Kansas City and Northwestern Railroad, which the Missouri Pacific bought in 1879, and for decades its name was best known from Lasater Ford's TV and radio commercials. The weekly Gazette covers it together with Levasy and Sibley.
Lake Lotawana is built around a private lake. Milton Thompson dammed Sni-A-Bar Creek to make it in 1929, and the water and common ground still belong to the non-profit Lake Lotawana Association. Route 7 enters from Blue Springs, and annexations in 2001 and 2004 carried the city south across US-50. The shore is divided into lettered blocks, some behind numbered gates, so give the block and gate along with the street.
Lone Jack lies in the south-east of the county, north-east of Pleasant Hill and east of Greenwood. A single black jack tree that stood as a local landmark gave the town its name, and the 1862 Battle of Lone Jack was fought along its main street. The town has its own school district and a fire protection district whose one station also covers part of Lake Lotawana south of US-50 and east of Route 7.
Just west of Blue Springs, Lake Tapawingo is a small city around the lake it is named for. The Lake Tapawingo Development Company built it in 1926 as a sports retreat, one of Milton Thompson's lake projects before Lake Lotawana, and it incorporated in 1962 to avoid annexation by Blue Springs or Independence. US-40 connects it with both of those cities.
Sibley overlooks the Missouri River from a bluff in the county's north-east corner and is home to the Fort Osage National Historic Landmark. Platted in 1836, it is one of the oldest settlements in the county. The BNSF main line between Chicago and Los Angeles runs through the village to the Sibley Railroad Bridge, so say whether you are up in the village or down by the tracks and the river.
A post office has operated at Levasy since 1877, and the name is a respelling of early settler William Wallace Livesay's. The very small city lies in the east of the county, north of Oak Grove and north-east of Grain Valley, and shares the Fort Osage school district with Buckner and Sibley. When you call from here, give the road and the nearest crossroads.
Unity Village is more campus than town: the world headquarters of the Unity movement, grown from the Fillmore family's Unity Farm and bordering both Kansas City and Lee's Summit. The 1929 Tower is on the National Register, and Lake Charles R. Fillmore sits behind a concrete buttress dam, the only one of its kind in Missouri. Route 350 runs into the village from the I-470 and US-50 interchange. Name the building or parking lot you are in.
River Bend is the only piece of Jackson County on the north side of the Missouri River. When the river was moved into a new channel in 1951, the old bend, also called Liberty Bend, stayed in Jackson County because the county line still follows the former riverbed. It lies south-east of Liberty around the Route 210 and Route 291 junction, near our Liberty yard, and takes in the north end of the Route 291 bridge.
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Jackson County, the whole of it. Titan Tow & Repair covers both ends of the Liberty Bend Bridge, which carries Route 291 over the Missouri River at Sugar Creek, and the county line there still follows the river's old bed from before it was moved into its present channel. That leaves the entire bridge, and the River Bend ground around the Route 210 junction on the north bank, inside Jackson County. The highway is four-lane divided, with separate northbound and southbound bridges, so tell us which one you are on and whether you are in a lane or against the rail.
Yes, 24 hours a day. Titan Tow & Repair runs winch-outs and tows at the Jackson County reservoirs, including Longview Lake on the dammed Little Blue River, and Lake Jacomo and Blue Springs Lake in Fleming Park. A tow vehicle that has dropped a wheel into soft ground, or a camper that will not climb out of a wet site, is usually a winch-out rather than a tow. Tell us which lake and which parking area or site, whether the trailer is still hitched, and roughly what the whole rig weighs.
Yes. Titan Tow & Repair covers all of I-470, 24 hours a day: from the Grandview Triangle, past the US-50 interchange on the north-west side of Lee's Summit and the Route 291 interchange on its north-east side, then north with Route 291 into Independence to meet I-70 at 39th Street. Our WreckMaster-certified operators handle recoveries off the shoulder as well as straight tows. Give the direction you are heading and the last interchange you passed, and say whether the truck is on the shoulder or blocking a lane.
