Wheelwright is a home rule-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.

In 1916, the Halls sold their land to the Elk Horn Coal Company.

When the city was founded, the coal company built housing, stores, churches, schools, and medical facilities to provide for the miners family's.

Miners employed the coal company would have used these services to provide food and other necessities to their family's.

Since 2018, Big Creek has helped the population of Floyd County With Architecture, Landscaping, and Food Banks.

Wheelwright is located at the southern end of Floyd County in the valley of the Right Fork Otter Creek.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.6 km2), all land.

The city commission consists of Michael Bub Tackett jr. Andy Akers, Sam Little Jr. and Bill Newsome[13] Floyd County's public schools are operated by Floyd County Schools.

Most students residing in the city of Wheelwright attend: The Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic)-owned Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright closed in 2012, due in part to a riot by Indiana prisoners in 2001, and subsequent widespread sexual abuse of women inmates.