Wamego, KS Road Trips
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Longest Drive
247.9 mi
Dodge City, KS
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4h 41m
Dodge City, KS
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Wamego, KS by the Numbers
Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Population
4,205
Median Income
$82,756
Median Home Value
$187,700
Median Age
36.8
Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.
Notable People from Wamego, KS
A sampling of people born in Wamego, KS.
Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.
1875–1940
(1875-1940) American automotive industry executive
Dick Knostman
1931–2022
basketball player
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Traveler Guide to Wamego, KS
Wamego is a small city of about 1.7 square miles in size in Pottawatomie County in the Flint Hills of Northeastern Kansas.
Wamego is most notable for its Wizard of Oz museum and themed businesses.
The Oz Museum. Features a collection of over 25,000 artifacts from the Wizard of Oz movie, on permanent loan. Also contains a gift shop, and don't forget to walk along The Yellow Brick Road outside. 1 The Colombian Theatre, 521 Lincoln Ave, ☏ +1 785-456-2029, [email protected]. A music hall built in 1893 inspired by the Chicago World's Fair of that same year. It also boasts a collection of twenty original Columbian Exposition oil and distempera paintings. (updated Jul 2025) Wamego Dutch Windmill and Wamego Historical Museum, 406 4th St. Pretend you are in the Netherlands, or almost. Beecher Bible & Rifle Church, 1414 Lilac Ln. Limestone church built in territorial times where an abolitionist Brady Beecher worked to persuade Kansas on the path to being a free state in the days before the Civil War.
OZtoberFEST. The Wizard of Oz Museum hosts an annual OZtoberFEST on the first weekend in October. Often features cast from the original movie and hot air balloon rides. Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park, 29377 Mitchell Prairie Ln. Hiking among the Flint Hills and tallgrass prairie with some connections to the underground railroad/Bleeding Kansas through a colorful abolitionist Brady Beecher. Daily 6:30AM-9PM.
From Topeka, Kansas, it can be accessed by traveling West on Highway 24.
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