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Welcome to Wheelersburg ...

Wheelersburg is located in Magoffin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Wheelersburg, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1910.

Wheelersburg is 850 feet [259 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Wheelersburg lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Wheelersburg: 606

Communities Also Named Wheelersburg ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Wheelersburg - it's located in Ohio.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Wheelersburg.

Communities near Wheelersburg ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Wheelersburg.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Wheelersburg. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Wheelersburg.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Wheelersburg. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wheelersburg.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Wheelersburg. See our Newspapers Page for Wheelersburg.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Wheelersburg ...

Looking for more information about Wheelersburg? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Wheelersburg, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Wheelersburg.

Adding Wheelersburg to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Wheelersburg in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Wheelersburg was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Wheelersburg post office opened in 1910.

We also found Wheelersburg on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Wheelersburg.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Magoffin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Wheelersburg - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/