Census Data for Wheeler
As far as we can tell, Wheeler has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Wheeler, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Pineville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Barbourville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Middlesboro
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Cumberland Gap
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Harrogate
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Williamsburg
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Jellico
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Corbin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- New Tazewell
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Tazewell
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Wallins Creek
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek
- The population in 2016 was estimated at 146 people. This represents a 6.41% decrease since 2010.The 2010 Census gave a population of 156 people.
- Loyall
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Loyall is located in Harlan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyall
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- LaFollette
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Harlan
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Manchester
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Knox County ...
Wheeler is located in Knox County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Knox County.
Miscellaneous Information for Wheeler ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Knox County or the community of Wheeler:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Wheeler:
- GNIS ID for Wheeler: 506523
- GNIS ID for Knox County: 516907
- GNIS ID for State of Kentucky: 1779786
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 21 (Kentucky)
- County Code: 121 (Knox County)
- Place Code: 82236 (Wheeler)
- State & County Code: 21/121 (Kentucky / Knox County)
- State & Place Code: 21/82236 (Kentucky / Wheeler)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Wheeler is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #6 (the East South-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Wheeler.
Footnotes ...
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