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Ashland, Kentucky Downtown Ashland, Kentucky Downtown Ashland, Kentucky Location of Ashland, Kentucky Location of Ashland, Kentucky Ashland is a home rule-class town/city in Boyd County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Ashland, the biggest city in Boyd County, is positioned upon the southern bank of the Ohio River.
The populace was 21,684 at the 2010 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland urbane area.
New definitions from February 28, 2013 placed the populace at 363,000. Ashland is the second-largest town/city inside the MSA, after Huntington, West Virginia.
Ashland serves as an meaningful economic and medical center for northeast Kentucky and is part of the fifth-largest urbane region in Kentucky.
Main article: History of Ashland, Kentucky Ashland dates back to the migration of the Poage family from the Shenandoah Valley via the Cumberland Gap in 1786.
Also called Poage Settlement, the improve that advanced around it remained an extended-family affair until the mid-19th century. In 1854, the town/city name was changed to Ashland, after Henry Clay's Lexington estate and to reflect the city's burgeoning industrial base.
The city's early industrialized growth was a result of Ohio's pig iron trade and, particularly, the 1854 charter of the Kentucky Iron, Coal, and Manufacturing Company by the Kentucky General Assembly. The town/city was formally incorporated by the General Assembly two years later in 1856. Major industrialized employers in the first half of the 20th Century encompassed Armco, Ashland Oil and Refining Company, the C&O Railroad, Allied Chemical & Dye Company's Semet Solvay, and Mansbach Steel.
Downtown Ashland Ashland is positioned at 38 27 50 N 82 38 30 W (38.464017, -82.641571). It lies inside the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau. Main article: Cityscape of Ashland, Kentucky Ashland's central company precinct extends from 12th Street to 18th Street, and from Carter Avenue to Greenup Avenue.
It includes many historically preserved and notable buildings, such as the Paramount Arts Center and the Ashland Bank Building, which is assembled to Manhattan height and style standards and serves as a reminder of what Ashland leaders hoped it would become.
Climate data for Ashland, Kentucky Ashland is governed by a City Manager form of government. The government switched from a council-manager to a town/city commissioner-manager form of government in 1950. The City Manager is the chief administrative officer for the town/city who reports to a Board of Commissioners.
The interim City Manager is presently Steve Corbitt, the city's former City Manager.
The Mayor of Ashland is propel for a four-year term and is not term limited.
The mayor presides over City Commission meetings, is a voting member of the City Commission and represents the town/city at primary functions.
Ashland's current City Commission members are Mayor Steve Gilmore and Commissioners Amanda Clark, Marty Gute, Matt Perkins and Marshall Steen.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland in Summit, unincorporated Boyd County, 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of central Ashland. The United States Postal Service operates the Ashland Post Office and the Unity Contract Station. In the late 19th century, what is now the Ashland Police Department was organized when the town was still known as Poage's Landing. The first executive officer was a town marshal, who was soon replaced by a experienced police department.
The town/city of Ashland presently has 49 sworn officers, three civilian employees who function as administrative support and six parapolice who handle tasks that do not require the services of a sworn officer. King's Daughters Medical Center is Ashland's biggest employer The fourth biggest hospital in the state of Kentucky, the 465-bed not-for-profit institution is the city's biggest employer at over 4,000 employees. It offers various inpatient and outpatient services for the region.
Another hospital, the Ashland Tuberculosis Hospital, was positioned on a hill above U.S.
Route 60 in the Western Hills section of the town/city and opened in 1950. It featured 100 beds and served 18 easterly Kentucky counties.
Ashland Community and Technical College All enhance schools inside town/city limits are directed by the Ashland Independent School District.
All enhance schools outside of town/city limits are directed by the Boyd County School District.
Ashland has five enhance elementary schools, those being Hager Elementary, Oakview Elementary, Crabbe Elementary School, Poage Elementary and Charles Russell Elementary.
Its students and much of its resources were merged with the other elementary schools in Fall 2010. The former Hatcher Elementary building now serves as the Ashland Independent Schools Central Office.
There is one enhance middle school, Ashland Middle School, formerly known as George M.
Verity Middle School and Putnam Junior High School. The ground is home to Putnam Stadium which serves as the home field for Ashland Tomcats high school and middle school football.
One enhance high school serves the town/city of Ashland: Paul G.
Blazer High School, titled after philanthropist and founder of Ashland Inc., Paul G.
The high school is home to the Ashland Tomcats and Kittens athletic teams.
The Ashland Tomcats football program has accomplished 11 state championships.
The Ashland Tomcats (boys') basketball program have accomplished 1 nationwide championship, 4 state championships, 32 county-wide championships, and 55 precinct championships.
The Ashland Tomcats and Kittens (girls') soccer squads play at the Ashland Soccer Complex at the high school.
Outside of town/city limits, Boyd County Public Schools serves the non-urban part of Ashland.
Boyd County Middle School serves grades 6-8, while Boyd County High School serves grades 9-12.
The two private schools serving the Ashland region are the Holy Family School and the Rose Hill Christian School.
Post-secondary educational opportunities include Ashland Community and Technical College which has multiple campuses inside the city.
Morehead State University also has a satellite ground located in Ashland.
Two locals, The Judds from Ashland, and Billy Ray Cyrus from close-by Flatwoods, are included.
Ashland is home to two newspapers: The Independent and The Greater Ashland Beacon.
The journal is often called "The Daily Independent" or the "Ashland Daily Independent" by locals, as these were its former names.
Ashland's other journal is The Greater Ashland Beacon.
Licensed to Ashland with studios positioned in Huntington, West Virginia.
Licensed to close-by Greenup, Kentucky with studios positioned in downtown Ashland.
Licensed to close-by Greenup, Kentucky with studios positioned in downtown Ashland.
It was established by the Ashland Broadcasting Station whose owners were the Daily Independent on April 29, 1935. It was sold to Nunn Enterprises in 1939.
In addition, WKYT, the CBS partner in Lexington, Kentucky, is shown on cable TV in Ashland when its programming is different from Charleston's CBS partner WOWK.
Ashland boasts a 47-acre (190,000 m2) wooded Central Park, established in 1854, with playgrounds and other amusements.
In 2004, the AK Steel Sports Park was constructed along Blackburn Avenue in South Ashland.
Located just north of the town/city in Worthington is the Ashland Regional Airport.
See also: Ashland, Kentucky (Amtrak station) Amtrak serves Ashland with the three-days-a-week Cardinal, connecting New York City, Washington, Charlottesville, VA, Indianapolis, and Chicago.
Amtrak uses the Ashland Transportation Center, formerly the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway freight depot, positioned on 15th Street near the Ohio River.
Passenger rail service was moved from Catlettsburg to the Ashland Transportation Center in March 1998.
The Ben Williamson and Simeon Willis Memorial Bridges connect Ashland to Southern Ohio Greyhound Lines is the sole provider of intercity bus transit out of Ashland.
It operates out of the Ashland Transportation Center, along with the Ashland Bus System that provides five small-town bus routes.
Ashland is served by US 23 and US 60, a several state routes, and is in close adjacency to US 52 and Interstate 64.
KY 5 never enters the town/city limits of Ashland, however does serve a sizeable region surrounding the city.
KY 168 crosses through the south Ashland region and is referred to as Blackburn Avenue and South Belmont Street.
Billy Ray Cyrus, nation music singer, born and raised in Flatwoods, Kentucky, just outside Ashland Jean Bell Thomas, proprietress of American Folk Song Festival in Ashland region 1930 - 1972 Ashland, Kentucky is mentioned at the beginning of Part 4 Chapter 2 in On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
Ashland, Kentucky is mentioned as the locale of the Rebel-Georgian Coalition camp in the NBC tv series Revolution Episode 1.17 "The Longest Day" first aired May 13, 2013.
Historical populations from A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786-1954, Ashland Centennial Committee, 1954, and Ashland City Directory, 1985.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Ashland city, Kentucky".
A History of Ashland, Kentucky, 1854 2004.
Ashland Bicentennial Committee.
"Ashland, Kentucky." "Monthly Averages for Ashland, KY".
"Ashland Police Department." Ashland Police Department.
"A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786 1954." Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland.
"The Federal Correctional Institution of Ashland, Kentucky, is positioned five miles southwest of Ashland in Summit, Kentucky." "FCI Ashland Contact Information." "FCI ASHLAND FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION ST.
ROUTE 716 ASHLAND, KY 41105." "Post Office Location - ASHLAND Archived July 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.." "Board votes to change Verity to Ashland Middle School." "It's Ashland Middle School now." "A historic preservation plan for Ashland, Kentucky." City of Ashland, April 1978.
City of Ashland official website Ashland Alliance (Chamber of Commerce) Ashland Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Ashland Fire Department Jewish History of Ashland, Kentucky by the Institute of Southern Jewish Life Ashland, Kentucky
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