Blackford News

More than a month after heavy rainfall caused extensive flooding of residential areas in the communities of Blackford and Wheatcroft, cleanup and repair efforts to help people whose homes sustained damage, or whose homes may be a total loss.

Two Clay area businesses are teaming up to help victims of the recent flooding in Wheatcroft and Blackford.

Discussion of clean-up and repair work following heavy flooding across much of Webster County, particularly in and around the communities of Clay, Wheatcroft, and Blackford, was the focus of a Clay City Council regular meeting last week.

In the 1840s, Tobias Gibson, a wealthy sugar planter from Louisiana, bought the Thomas January House, at 437 W. Second Street in Lexington.

As rainfall levels passed the 12-inch mark of standing water over the last week, several roads in Webster County were closed due to flooding - enough to prompt Webster County School District administrators to delay or even cancel school most days - and at least three communities found themselves completely cut off.