Wheatcroft, KY

Wheatcroft is a home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 105 residents. Wheatcroft was named for Irving Horace Wheatcroft, an Englishman, who in 1899 laid out and founded the city on land acquired from Elijah Cullen. He opened one or more area coal mines, and built the Kentucky Western Railway from nearby Blackford to Dixon. A newcomer can read Wheatcroft through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Wheatcroft comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The city lies along Kentucky Route 109 northwest of Clay and southeast of the Webster- Union county line.