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Ashland

county seat of Clay County, Alabama, USA
Organization county_seat Q67796
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Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county seat, town in the United States[4]
Official website
www.cityofashland.net[9]
Official name
Ashland[14]

Status and dates

Inception
1867[7]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 33.272°, -85.837°[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Clay County[2]
Postal code
36251[5]
More facts +12
Capital of
Clay County[13]
Area
+19.071321, +19.054264[19][20]
Different from
Ashland[16]
Elevation above sea level
+341, +341[17][18]
Local dialing code
256[6]
Mean age
+43.8
Number of households
+732[15]
P14901
ashland
Per capita income
+16893
Population
2.0k (2.0k–2.0k, n=3)[10][11][12]
Water area
+0.085048
Water as percent of area
+0.4463
🏷️ Also known as
en Ashland en Ashland, AL en Ashland, Alabama ar آشلاند es Ashland (Alabama) fa اشلند he אשלנד ja アッシュランド ko 애슐랜드 ru Ашленд uk Ешленд zh 阿什兰
🔖 Identifiers · 15
ArchINFORM location ID
21893
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Alabama/Localities/A/Ashland/
Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
h-2158
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
01-02860
Freebase ID
/m/0q5zg
GNIS Feature ID
159091, 2405173
GeoNames ID
4830687
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
ashland-7
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0437191
OpenStreetMap relation ID
7458749
OpenWeatherMap city ID
4830687
Quora topic ID
Ashland-AL
Show all 15 identifiers +3
Topic's main category
Category:Ashland, Alabama
UN/LOCODE
USALY
Who's on First ID
85914023
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
← Place of publication 5
Clay County Advance, Clay County Watchman, People's Party Advocate, The Ashland News, The Ashland Progress
People born here 3
Hugo Black, Bob Riley, Hiram Wesley Evans
Capital of 1
Clay County
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Ashland, Alabama
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Ashland
Instance of 1
county seat
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Clay County
Located in time zone 1
UTC−06:00
Named after 1
Ashland/Lineville Airport
← Capital 1
Clay County
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Ashland, Alabama
← Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID 1
Shaykh Tusi
← Place served by transport hub 1
Ashland/Lineville Airport
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Summary

Ashland is a county seat[1].

Body

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Ashland include Ashland/Lineville Airport[21], an airport[22], in United States[23].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Ashland include Ashland/Lineville Airport[21], an airport[22], in United States[23].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Tymewalk · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of households → {'amount': '+732'}
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Ashland, Alabama
    Population → {'amount': '+2037'}, {'amount': '+1965'}, {'amount': '+1984'}
    Coordinates → —
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55023|batch #55023]]: Encyclopedia of Alabama update - add values for P14901 based on existing values of P6010"
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