Wheeling
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Places in the United States of America
- Wheeling, IllinoisWheeling, IllinoisWheeling is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 34,496 at the 2000 census, and 38,555 at the 2006 special village census.-Geography:Wheeling is located at ....
- Wheeling, Carroll County, IndianaWheeling, Carroll County, IndianaWheeling is an unincorporated town in Carrollton Township, Carroll County, Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area....
- Wheeling, Delaware County, IndianaWheeling, Delaware County, IndianaWheeling is an unincorporated town in Washington Township, Delaware County, Indiana....
- Wheeling, Gibson County, IndianaWheeling, Gibson County, IndianaWheeling is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana, United States. It was once a thriving agricultural community on the banks of the Patoka River...
- Wheeling, MissouriWheeling, MissouriWheeling is a city in Livingston County, Missouri, United States. The population was 268 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Wheeling is located at ....
- Wheeling, West VirginiaWheeling, West VirginiaWheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...
- Wheeling Creek, two bodies of water, in Ohio and West Virginia
- Wheeling Creek (Ohio)Wheeling Creek (Ohio)Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, long, in eastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau...
- Wheeling Creek (West Virginia)Wheeling Creek (West Virginia)Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, 25 miles long, in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States, with a watershed extending into southwestern Pennsylvania. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of...
- Wheeling Creek (Ohio)
- Wheeling IslandWheeling IslandWheeling Island is the most densely populated island in the Ohio River. It lies within the city of Wheeling in Ohio County, West Virginia, in the United States. The 2000 census showed a resident population of 3,142 persons on the island, which has a land area of 1.514 km²...
in the Ohio River
Other uses
- Wheeling (see breaking wheelBreaking wheelThe breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by bludgeoning to death...
), a form of torture - Fort WheelingFort WheelingFort Wheeling, or simply Wheeling, is the title of a comics series set in colonial North America, by Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt.-Publication history:Wheeling first appeared in the Argentine comics magazine Misterix in 1962...
or simply Wheeling, a comics series by Hugo Pratt - "Wheeling", American slang term for off-roadingOff-roadingOff-roading is a term for driving a vehicle on unsurfaced roads or tracks, made of materials such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain.-Off-road vehicle:...
, a type of motorsport - Wheeling (electric power transmission)Wheeling (electric power transmission)In electric power transmission, wheeling is a term used to describe either of the following:* the act of transporting electric power over transmission lines, or;...
- The Wheeling, common short name for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990)
- Wheeling, a technique for the cold forming of sheet metal into complex shapes using the English WheelEnglish WheelThe English wheel, in Britain also known as a Wheeling machine, is a metalworking tool that enables a craftsman to form compound curves from flat sheets of metal such as aluminium or steel. The process of using an English wheel is known as Wheeling...
- Lottery WheelingLottery WheelingLottery wheeling is a method of arranging lottery ticket numbers in a way that will allegedly improve chances to win multiple-tier lottery prizes. Wheeling was designed for players who wish to play more numbers than the set required for a lottery ticket...
- Wheeling Jesuit UniversityWheeling Jesuit UniversityWheeling Jesuit University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. Located in Wheeling, West Virginia, it was founded as Wheeling College in 1954 by the Society of Jesus . Today, Wheeling Jesuit University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of...