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.
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
Ashland Grade Schoollisted 2005
Girl Scout Little Houselisted 2015
Stein Houselisted 2001
Stockgrowers State Banklisted 1972- Hodson Hotellisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresAshland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 867 | |
| 2020 | 783 | -84 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Protection quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.5 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2006 | Natural | 1,000 acres | Kansas Counties | MILLER RANCH |
| 17 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Clark County | 22 |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 17 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018028 |
| 7 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Clark County | 2017026 |
| 5 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,600 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 2 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Clark County | 201713 |
Storms near this place
60 of 154 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Tornado (F2) | Ashland | $50,000 | Tornado 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 1996 | Lightning | Ashland | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | Ashland | $20,000 | A 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | $10,000 | 12 power poles blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | $5,000 | Power poles blown down on highway 34. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | $4,500 | Roof torn of a 15 x 30 shed and a tree was uprooted. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Ashland | $3,800 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Ashland | - | A public report of 3 inch hail. 2.75 inch hail was reported at the same time and place. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Ashland | - | A public report of about 3.5 inch hail. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Emergency Manager reported multiple trees down and building damage in Ashland. Time estimated from radar. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Ashland | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Ashland | - | This tornado was making contact over open range land. It was witnessed by storm spotters and the Emergency Manager. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Numerous power poles were blown down in Ashland, as well as north and east of town. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Several trees were blown down. Many power lines were down from trees blowing into them. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Six inch diameter tree branches blown down in the northeast side of Ashland. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Tree damage in Ashland. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Ashland | - | Rainfall of 4.75 inches was reported 3 miles north of Ashland. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Ashland | - | Rainfall of 4.75 inches fell in about 2 hours. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | 50 to 60 mph winds occurred right before the hail fell. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Ashland | - | This was a brief tornado that did not hit anything to cause damage. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | This wind was reported by a USGS data logger. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ashland | - | The hail lasted 10 minutes. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Ashland | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Seventy to eighty mile per hour wind persisted for about 20 minutes. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Ashland | - | Water over highway 94 1 mile east of Clark Sate Lake. |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Ashland | - | Tornado touched down briefly over open range land. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Ashland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q652679 | The 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.




