Wheatcroft Kentucky Map

About Wheatcroft, Kentucky

Wheatcroft is a locality in Webster County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 105. The population density is 164.8 people per km². Wheatcroft is located at 37.4900°N, 87.8628°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Wheatcroft is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 42463.

Wheatcroft spreads across the quiet expanse of western Kentucky, where the horizon is defined by the modest, sloping rise of Granny Hill. It lies 22.9 miles west-northwest of Madisonville, KY (from Madisonville, KY: bearing 299°T), and is situated 2.3 miles south of Williams. The land here holds a patient, earthen weight, characterized by deep soils and the persistent, low-slung presence of Caney Fork, which meanders through the landscape just a mile away. Light in the late afternoon often takes on a bruised, golden quality, catching the edges of the fields and casting long, thin shadows that stretch toward the distant reaches of Gopher Den Hollow. The air carries the scent of damp loam and cooling minerals, a stillness that settles over the fields long before the sun finally dips below the tree line.

Wheatcroft bears the quiet marks of an economy once deeply entwined with the extraction of coal and the steady labor of the land. The legacy of those early industries lingers in the straight-backed architecture of the houses and the unhurried way the days unfold, far removed from the clamor of larger hubs. Residents find a common ground in the simple maintenance of their surroundings, with Clay Community Park serving as a nearby reach of green space where the pace of life slows to match the turning of the seasons. While the modern world moves with a different velocity, the people here maintain a steady connection to the physical geography that has sustained them for generations, finding a quiet, durable grace in the rhythm of the local harvest and the unchanging flow of the nearby creeks.

About This Wheatcroft Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wheatcroft, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.490046, -87.862796. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Wheatcroft includes the ZIP code (42463), telephone area code (270), county seat of Webster County (Dixon), and school district assignment (Webster County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.