Map of Ashland city, Nebraska

Ashland is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,086 at the 2020 census.

Ashland city overview:
Name:	Ashland city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Nebraska
County:	Saunders County
Elevation:	1,093 ft (333 m)
Total Area:	1.41 sq mi (3.65 km²)
Land Area:	1.38 sq mi (3.58 km²)
Water Area:	0.03 sq mi (0.07 km²)
Total Population:	3,086
Population Density:	2,231.38/sq mi (861.57/km²)
ZIP code:	68003
Area code:	402
FIPS code:	3102305
GNISfeature ID:	2394000
Website:	http://www.ashland-ne.com/

Online Interactive Map

Ashland online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

Ashland location map. Where is Ashland city?

Ashland location on the U.S. Map. Where is Ashland city. — Ashland location on the U.S. Map.

Ashland location on the Nebraska map. Where is Ashland city. — Location of Ashland in Nebraska.

History

Ashland is located at the site of a low-water limestone ledge along the bottom of Salt Creek, an otherwise mud-bottomed stream that was a formidable obstacle for wagon trains on the great westward migrations of the late 1840s and 1850s. The Oxbow Trail, a variant route of the Oregon Trail, ran from Nebraska City (on the Missouri River) to Fort Kearny (on the Platte River), where it joined the main route of the Oregon Trail. The limestone bottom of Salt Creek at Ashland made it an excellent fording site. Ashland was established in 1870 and named after Ashland, the estate of Henry Clay.

Today, Ashland benefits by its proximity to Interstate 80 and the cities of Omaha and Lincoln. While in some respects Ashland is becoming a “bedroom community” of those much larger cities, it retains a rural character. That coherence as a community, and a 30-minute drive to either of the state’s economic hubs, has led to a building boom in the late 1990s and the 2000s.

Ashland Road Map

Ashland city Satellite Map

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.13 square miles (2.93 km), of which 1.10 square miles (2.85 km) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km) is water.