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Ashland, Kansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67831. It stands on West Branch Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle. 783 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,975 feet above sea level.

Ashland within Clark County

On record in Ashland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ashland fell from 867 to 783 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010867
2020783-84 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ashland between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,688 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use7.5 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2006Natural1,000 acresKansas CountiesMILLER RANCH
17 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresClark County22
7 April 2020Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018028
7 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreClark County2017026
5 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1,600 acresKansas Forest Service3
2 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreClark County201713

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

60 of 154 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland in 154 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 113 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Tornado (F2)Ashland$50,000Tornado touched down briefly and passed through the Roger Giles Farmstead. House windows were broken out, farm machinery was wrecked, and the house was moved on its foundation. All but two outbuildings on the farmstead were damaged.
August 1996LightningAshland$50,000no account filed
September 1994HailAshland$20,000A severe thunderstorm with one-inch diameter hail and winds greater than 52 knots (60 mph) knocked down large tree branches and produced some roof damage seven miles southwest of Ashland at 1615 CST.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindAshland$10,00012 power poles blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAshland$5,000Power poles blown down on highway 34.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAshland$4,500Roof torn of a 15 x 30 shed and a tree was uprooted.
June 1996HailAshland$3,800no account filed
September 2025HailAshland-A public report of 3 inch hail. 2.75 inch hail was reported at the same time and place.
September 2025HailAshland-A public report of about 3.5 inch hail.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshland-Emergency Manager reported multiple trees down and building damage in Ashland. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016HailAshland-Hail covered the ground.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAshland-Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Ashland-This tornado was making contact over open range land. It was witnessed by storm spotters and the Emergency Manager.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-Numerous power poles were blown down in Ashland, as well as north and east of town.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-Several large trees were blown down by the high wind. A 7 inch diameter tree limb fell on a police car and caused substantial damage. The entire town of Ashland was without power.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-Several trees were blown down. Many power lines were down from trees blowing into them.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-Six inch diameter tree branches blown down in the northeast side of Ashland.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-Tree damage in Ashland.
June 2007Heavy RainAshland-Rainfall of 4.75 inches was reported 3 miles north of Ashland.
June 2007Heavy RainAshland-Rainfall of 4.75 inches fell in about 2 hours.
May 2006HailAshland-50 to 60 mph winds occurred right before the hail fell.
September 2006Tornado (F0)Ashland-This was a brief tornado that did not hit anything to cause damage.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindAshland-This wind was reported by a USGS data logger.
June 2005HailAshland-The hail lasted 10 minutes.
May 2002HailAshland-The hail covered the ground.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAshland-Seventy to eighty mile per hour wind persisted for about 20 minutes.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAshland-4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 1997Flash FloodAshland-Water over highway 94 1 mile east of Clark Sate Lake.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Ashland-Tornado touched down briefly over open range land.
May 2024HailAshland-no account filed
May 2024HailAshland-no account filed
May 2024HailAshland-no account filed
May 2020HailAshland-no account filed
May 2020HailAshland-no account filed
June 2019HailAshland-no account filed
June 2017HailAshland-no account filed
June 2017HailAshland-no account filed
May 2016HailAshland-no account filed
September 2016HailAshland-no account filed
June 2014HailAshland-no account filed
April 2012HailAshland-no account filed
April 2012HailAshland-no account filed
April 2012HailAshland-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAshland-no account filed
June 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
March 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2007HailAshland-no account filed
May 2006HailAshland-no account filed
July 2006HailAshland-no account filed
July 2006HailAshland-no account filed
April 2005HailAshland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sitka6.1 miles13
Lexington11.4 miles12
Englewood15.5 miles11
Minneola22.0 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AshlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q652679The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 470769. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.