Ashley, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Ashley Village. It lies in ZIP code area 43003. The Survey maps it on the Ashley quadrangle. 1,198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAshley fell from 1,330 to 1,198 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. 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 | 1,330 | |
| 2020 | 1,198 | -132 (-10%) |
Then and now
1915 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1915 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1915 USGS Marengo quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Marengo quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,444 shownMuseums hold 1,444 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ashley between 1837 and 1975: 1,243 Animalia, 101 Fungi, 88 Plantae, 5 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein. | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Ohio |
![]() | Hypoxylon howeianum Peck | 1896 | A. P. Morgan | |
![]() | Ovularia obliqua (Cooke) Oudem. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Agaricus velutipes Curtis | 1837 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Polyporus versicolor (L.) Fr. | 1838 | not recorded | |
![]() | Equisetum arvense L. | 1870 | Beardslee, H.C. | Moist soil. |
![]() | Sphaeria ulmea Fr. | 1880 | W. A. Kellermann | Ohio |
![]() | Phyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm. | 1882 | Kellerman | Ohio |
| unnamed | 1883 | Kellerman | Ohio | |
| Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | Ohio | |
| Botrytis vulgaris (Link) Fr. | 1883 | Dr. W. A. Kellerman | Ohio | |
| Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke | 1883 | WA Kellerman | Ohio |
All 1,444 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ashley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms nearby
15 since 1994The National Weather Service names Ashley in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $500,000 | Trees were downed. Twenty sailboats capsized in O'Shaughnessy Reservoir (Shawnee Hills area) during the storm. Many boaters had to be rescued from the water well off shore. |
| November 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $15,000 | A barn was destroyed and numerous trees were downed along North Old State Road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $10,000 | Shingles were blown off of the roofs of several homes. Yard furniture was displaced in the backyard of one of the homes. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $5,000 | A piece of aluminum siding was pulled from a house facade and a boat on a trailer was pushed across the yard damaging a couple of cars. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed. An observer reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $3,000 | Several trees were downed in the Ashley area due to thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $3,000 | Trees knocked down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $2,000 | Trees downed. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | $1,000 | A power pole was knocked down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | - | Winds gusted to 58 mph. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | - | Winds gusted to 70 mph. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Ashley | - | Large hail fell in Delaware and winds were reported at 75 mph in Ashley. Trees were downed in both locations. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashley | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Corners | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Leonardsburg | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Kilbourne | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Norton | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Troyton | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Paget | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kingston Center | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Oakdale | 8.4 miles | 13 |
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 Ashley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2039183 | 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 1064347. 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.
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.
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.

















