Ashland. 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 23,622), Boyd co., E Ky., on terraces along the Ohio River near the influx of the Big Sandy; settled 1786, inc. 1854. Located in a region that produces chemicals, lumber, steel, oil, and natural gas, Ashland is a river and rail shipping point with large repair yards. Its many manufactures include marble and paper products, consumer goods, apparel, furniture, and construction materials. Tobacco and alfalfa are raised and there is dairying. The city is part of a tristate urbanized area that includes Ironton, Ohio, and Huntington, W.Va. 2 City (1990 pop. 20,079), seat of Ashland co., N Ohio, in a farm area; inc. 1844. Machinery, steel, and rubber products are manufactured. Ashland College is there.

Ashland was the name of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay's estate in Kentucky. Because of Clay's renown in the U.S. and in other parts of the world, the name thereafter was adopted upon the establishment of many places.

Ashland may refer to:

Places

Canada

• Ashland, New Brunswick
• Ashland Road, New Brunswick

United Kingdom

• Ashland, Milton Keynes

United States

• Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, a historic site in Lexington, Kentucky, and the source of the name of several other Ashlands.
• Ashland, Alabama
• Ashland, California
• Ashland, Georgia
• Ashland, Illinois
• Ashland, Indiana
• Ashland, Kansas
• Ashland, Kentucky
• Ashland, Louisiana
• Ashland, Maine
• Ashland, Massachusetts
• Ashland, Mississippi
• Ashland, Missouri
• Ashland, Montana
• Ashland, Nebraska
• Ashland, New Hampshire
• Ashland, New Jersey
• Ashland, Chemung County, New York
• Ashland, Greene County, New York
• Ashland, Ohio
• Ashland, Oklahoma
• Ashland, Oregon
• Ashland, Pennsylvania
• Ashland, Virginia
• Ashland, Washington
• Ashland, West Virginia
• Ashland, Wisconsin, a city in Ashland County
• Ashland City, Tennessee
• Ashland County, Ohio
• Ashland County, Wisconsin
• Ashland Heights, South Dakota
• Ashland Township, Morgan County, Indiana
• Ashland Township, Michigan
• Ashland Township, Minnesota
• Ashland Township, Pennsylvania
• Ashland (town), Wisconsin, 15 miles distant from the city of Ashland, Wisconsin

Other uses

• Ashland, Inc., formerly known as Ashland Oil (named for Ashland, Kentucky)
• Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC, former name of Marathon Petroleum Company
• Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio
• Clay-Ashland in Liberia, named in honor of Henry Clay and his estate.
• Waking Ashland, a piano rock band whose name was inspired by Ashland, Oregon
• Ashland (CTA Green Line), a station on Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train line.