Titan Tow & Repair works all of Nemaha County, Kansas, 24 hours a day: Seneca, the county seat on US-36, plus Centralia, Corning, Goff and Wetmore along K-9 and the Nemaha side of Sabetha. The trucks come from our yard in Liberty, Missouri, for towing and winch-outs on anything from a pickup to a loaded tractor-trailer, heavy recovery, and mobile repair on the spot.
Nemaha County takes its name from the Nemaha River and sits on the Nebraska line, with Richardson and Pawnee counties across it. Seneca, the county seat, grew up on the old wagon route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Oregon and California, and US-36 still crosses the county through it; K-63 passes along the edge of Seneca, sharing a short stretch with US-36, and runs on through Corning. K-9 ties the western towns together through Centralia, Corning, Goff and Wetmore, and K-187 runs from K-9 at Centralia north to US-36. Most of those towns came with the railroad after the county's first line was built in 1866: Wetmore was founded by the railroad company that year, and Centralia moved to meet the tracks in 1867.
Sabetha, which straddles the Brown County line, draws commuters: Wenger Manufacturing's extruder plant is there, Coperion is another large employer in the area, and many of the smaller towns around are bedroom communities for people who work in Sabetha. Storms are part of the county's record, from the 1879 Irving tornado, which crossed Nemaha County, to the F5 that struck Seneca in May 1896, and a truck or trailer that a storm has rolled or blown over is recovery work rather than a simple tow. When you call from out here, lead with the closest town and which way you drove out of it; in Seneca, give the street corner.
| County | Nemaha County, Kansas |
|---|---|
| County seat | Seneca |
| Main roads | US-36, K-63, K-9, K-187, K-62 |
| Towns covered | 8 |
| Hours | 24 hours a day, every day |
| Dispatched from | 2751 Liberty Landing Rd., Liberty, MO |
| Dispatch | (816) 888-8732 |
Seneca, the county seat, was founded in 1857 and named for Seneca County, Ohio. In the early 1860s it was a station on the Pony Express, which had its stop in the Smith Hotel at what is now Fourth and Main Streets, and an F5 tornado hit the town in May 1896. Seneca's 1910 minor league team played its home games at City Park. US-36 runs through town and K-63 skirts its edge. In town, Fourth and Main is a clear corner to give dispatch.
Centralia started in 1859 just north of where it stands and moved to the present site when a railroad was built through in 1867; it was incorporated in 1882. Floyd Perry Baker, a Kansas politician and newspaper editor, was an early resident. K-9 runs through town, and K-187 starts here and heads north to US-36. Vermillion USD 380 serves it, and the town sits on the county's west side, south-west of Seneca and toward the Marshall County line, so say which direction you left town in.
Wetmore was founded by the railroad company in 1866 and named for W.T. Wetmore, a vice president of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, and it was incorporated in 1882. It lies north of Holton, and its schools belong to Prairie Hills USD 113, formed in 2010 when the Sabetha and Axtell districts merged. K-9 runs south-east through Wetmore toward US-75, so tell us whether you were heading toward Holton or toward Goff.
Corning began in 1857 on a different site and moved to where it stands now in 1867; it is named for Erastus Corning of New York. The town and the rural area around it belong to the Vermillion USD 380 school district, which also takes in Centralia and, over the Marshall County line, Vermillion and Frankfort. K-9 and K-63 run together into Corning from the north, and the town lies south-east of Centralia, so tell dispatch which road and which town you are closer to.
Goff got its start in 1880, when the railroad was built through, and is named for Edward H. Goff, an official of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad; until 1894 the post office spelled it Goff's. The town lies north-west of Holton and is in the Prairie Hills USD 113 district. K-9 comes into Goff, and K-62 ends at K-9 just south-west of town, so say which of the two you were on and whether Wetmore or Corning is nearer.
Oneida was laid out around 1873 and named for the Oneida people, and its streets were named after the main thoroughfares of Chicago. It is a very small town east of Seneca, west of Hiawatha and south-west of Falls City, Nebraska, in the Nemaha Central USD 115 district. Name the street or road, and which town you came from.
Sabetha is partly in Nemaha County; its paragraph is on our Brown County page.
Vermillion is over the line in Marshall County, which has no page of its own on this site, so we list it with Nemaha County. The Missouri Pacific Railroad founded it in 1869 and named it for the Black Vermillion River, and its post office opened in 1870. It lies west of Centralia and shares the Vermillion USD 380 school district with Centralia and Corning.
Frankfort is also in Marshall County, west of Vermillion, and appears here for the same reason. It was laid out in 1867 as the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad arrived, the old Nottingham post office moved to meet the tracks, and the town took the name of Frank Schmidt, a member of the town company. It was incorporated in 1875 and belongs to the Vermillion USD 380 district. K-9 meets K-99 in town.
Fourth and Main Streets, if you are in town. Titan Tow & Repair can find that corner, where the Pony Express station stood in the Smith Hotel, without guesswork. Outside town, give the road, the direction you drove out of Seneca and anything you passed, such as Oneida to the east or Centralia to the south-west. Last, describe the vehicle and say whether it still rolls freely.
Yes. Titan Tow & Repair sends heavy wreckers and WreckMaster-certified operators to rollover and blown-over recoveries across Nemaha County, 24 hours a day. Tell dispatch whether the unit is on its side or on its roof, whether the trailer is loaded and with what, and whether it is on the road or off in a ditch or field. Wait for the storm to pass before you get out, and if anyone is hurt or fuel is leaking, call 911 first.
Titan Tow & Repair can, around the clock. We winch cars, pickups and loaded trucks back onto the road across Nemaha County, and a pickup that has only slid off the edge onto firm ground can normally be winched straight back up. Tell us which town you left and which you were heading for, how far off the pavement you are and whether the ground is wet, because soft ground changes the rigging.
