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Wheeler, the county seat of Wheeler County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 83 and State Highway 152, near the geographical center of the county. Both the town and the county were named after Royal T. Wheeler.qv The vicinity was first settled by ranchers as early as 1881, and by 1886 five families lived there. The town had its real beginning in 1904 through the enterprise of two ranchers, Robert B. Rogers and J. E. Stanley, who surveyed the land, built their homes on the site, and began the movement to choose a centrally located county seat in preference to Mobeetie. Rogers became the first postmaster of Wheeler and also had the first telephone. The partners' land and town lot advertisements soon brought results, for by 1906 Wheeler had two real estate offices and two general stores. A contested election in December of that year made Wheeler the county seat, and by 1908 the frame courthouse had been moved to the new location. At that time a bank and a drugstore were established, and the first school was opened in a building that had been moved from Bronco. This building also served for a time as the community church. A weekly newspaper, the Wheeler Sun, also began about this time; it later became the Wheeler Times. Local Attractions  City Drug Bed & Breakfast HotelMobeetie Jail MuseumLocal Schools Regional Schools Clarendon CollegeSouthwestern Oklahoma State UniversityAmarillo CollegeReal Estate Links Home GainRealEstate.comDemographics/Statistics Local DemographicsMore Demographics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parkview Hospital 1000 Sweetwater Street, Wheeler, Texas, 79096, (806) 826-5581 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
