According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,086 people, 737 households, and 391 families residing in the city.

At the 2010 census, there were 2,210 people, 812 households, and 554 families living in the town.

There were 950 housing units at an average density of 863.6 per square mile (333.4/km2).

At the 2000 census, there were 2,458 people, 901 households, and 634 families living in the town.

As early as the 1880s, the community was called Wheeling and the town had 200-300 residents by 1906.

The community was originally named after Wheeling, West Virginia because the owners of Woodward Iron Company, who employed many of the residents, also had business interests in that state.

Y. L. Lipscomb ran a general store on the old South Bessemer car line which opened in 1890, though the first settlers actually came to the area in the 1830s, when Vincent Loveless established his farm in the area.

[6] The town's major source of revenue is an illegal bingo hall that has been repeatedly shut by state authorities.