Ashland, Kentucky

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• Boyd County

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 12 of 21 shown

• Ashland Armorylisted 2002
• Ashland Coal and Iron Railroad Storelisted 1979
• Ashland Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1994
• Ashland Tuberculosis Hospitallisted 2008
• Alexander Bagby Houselisted 1979
• Bath Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1979
• Crump and Field Grocery Companylisted 1979
• Culbertson Houselisted 1979
• Timothy Fields Houselisted 1979
• First Christian Church of Ashlandlisted 1990
• First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1973
• Henry Clay Hotellisted 1984

Every listing in Boyd County

Ashland fell from 21,684 to 21,625 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.

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.

• 1901 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
• 1913 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Ashland between 1994 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Geigers Crossing (historical)
• Cliffside (historical)
• Normal
• Big Sandy Junction
• Catlettsburg
• Chadwick Creek (historical)

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ashland: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland in 77 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 48 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Boyd County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 486092. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.