Editing Wheelersburg, Ohio (section)

==History==
Wheelersburg was originally called Concord, and under the latter name was [[plat]]ted in 1824.<ref name="Evans 389">{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Nelson Wiley|title=A History of Scioto County, Ohio: Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t7np5qd3x;view=1up;seq=497|year=1903|publisher=N. W. Evans|page=389}}</ref> The present name honors Major Porter Wheeler, a pioneer settler.<ref name="Evans 389" /> By 1833, Wheelersburg had about 150 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ | title=The Ohio Gazetteer, or, a Topographical Dictionary | publisher=Scott and Wright | year=1833 | access-date=12 December 2013 | author=Kilbourn, John | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ/page/n526 490]}}</ref> A post office called Wheelersburgh was established in 1879, and the name was changed to Wheelersburg in 1893.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Scioto | title=Scioto County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=2 January 2016}}</ref>

In 1968, the town was devastated by an F5 tornado that killed seven people.<ref>{{cite report |department=National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Birmingham, Alabama |title=Alabama Event Report: F5 Tornado |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=10083187 |publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information |year=2021 |accessdate=April 16, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Storm Data: December 1973 Volume 15 No. 12 |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-72D2F12D-D559-46A1-929D-5B6479E59B29.pdf |website=National Centers for Environmental Information |publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417190305/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-72D2F12D-D559-46A1-929D-5B6479E59B29.pdf |archive-date=17 April 2022 |page=12}}</ref>