Wheatcroft is a home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, United States.

He opened one or more area coal mines, and built the Kentucky Western Railway from nearby Blackford to Dixon.

The Wheatcroft post office was established on September 10, 1900, with A.S. Logsdon as postmaster.

[4] The city lies along Kentucky Route 109 northwest of Clay and southeast of the Webster-Union county line.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.