Wayland, KY

Wayland is a home rule-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 389 residents. In 1911, the Elk Horn Coal Company established a coal camp at the confluence of Steele Creek and the Right Fork of Beaver Creek. This place had been known as "Martin's Mill" since before the start of the Civil War, due to Rev. The city's public schools are operated by the Floyd County Schools system. Most students residing in Wayland attend: Duff-Allen Central Elementary School and Floyd Central High School. Wayland's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kentucky setting. The local scoop is how Wayland's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Wayland is located in southwestern Floyd County in the valleys of the Right Fork Beaver Creek and its tributary, Steele Creek.