Wheelwright, Kentucky

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  Wheelwright coal miners in the 1940s. Ever since she can remember, Bailey Hamilton has listened to her grandparents reminisce about the good ol' days of Wheelwright, once a booming coal town in the eastern ...

• Turning a Jail Cell into a Meditation Room
  

  Find Your Way Home: Words From the Street, Wisdom From the Heart , a modest new book published by Abingdon Press, was written, according to the byline, "by the Women of Magdalene." Modeled in part on the sixth ...

• Incident leads to changes at prison
  

  HILO, Hawai'i - A male corrections officer has been fired and a privately run Kentucky prison has changed some of its housing unit procedures after a Hawai'i female prison inmate accused the officer of sexually ...

• 10 Floyd County inmates charged in beating
  

  Police have charged 10 Floyd County inmates - including a former social worker - with severely beating an inmate who pleaded guilty early this month to sexually abusing a minor.

• Drug Roundup Targets Illegal Sales In Wheelwright
  

  ' Drug trafficking in southern Floyd County was the focus of a joint investigation between Operation UNITE and the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, leading to a roundup of suspected dealers on Wednesday, ...

• Five Arrested In Floyd County Drug Investigation
  

  ' A months-long undercover investigation into drug trafficking in the Wheelwright community of Floyd County has led to the arrest of five individuals.

• Inmates Say They Want To Stay In Kentucky
  

  Many consider it paradise, but some women in an eastern Kentucky prison don't want to return to their home state of Hawaii.

City Description

Wheelwright is a city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,042 at the 2000 census. Wheelwright is located at 37°19′53″N 82°43′9″W / 37.33139, -82.71917 (37.331465, -82.719064). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.5 km²), all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,042 people, 203 households, and 146 families residing in the city. The population density was 598.0 people per square mile (231.2/km²). There were 236 housing units at an average density of 135.4/sq mi (52.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 63.15% White, 34.74% African American, 0.10% Asian, 1.25% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.73% of the population. There were 203 households out of which 36.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.7% were married couples living together, 16.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.6% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.08. In

City Contained By:

• Floyd County
• Kentucky

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 4.40297978757 km squared

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