Ashland, Ohio

This curated hub for Ashland County, Ohio brings together the page's documented record links, visible map or image evidence where published, and routes to related local records.

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Ashland fell from 21,249 to 19,225 between 2000 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. 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.

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1994

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.

• 1908 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ashland South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ashland South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ashland South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ashland South quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Ashland city, in the words of 1863.

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.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ashland between 2019 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None 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.

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:

• Bailey Lake
• Savannah
• Nankin
• England
• Nova
• Paradise Hill

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Museums hold 303 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ashland between 1846 and 1973: 280 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Auten, B Zahuranec & party and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	near Londonville
	Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 1916	1846	P. Harwood	Ashland
	Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1897	Smith, D. W.	Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
	Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.	1897	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Vermilion Township
	Smilax tamnoides L.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Red Haw
	Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)	1900	Fuller, W. J.	Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1902	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
	Valsa Fr.	1913	Stevens N. E.	Windsor
	Conocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869)	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1927	not recorded
	Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille, 1802)	1927	Drumm, J. C.	Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
	Trionyx spiniferus Lesueur, 1827	1927	Drumm, J. C.	Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio

All 303 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Ashland in 85 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 47 thunderstorm wind, 29 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 Ashland County

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1852 to 1854, 26,005 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1060832. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.