Ashland (Maine)
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 Ashlandcamp (1906) |
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | February 18, 1862 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Maine | ||
| County : | Aroostook County | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 39 ′ N , 68 ° 23 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,302 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 6.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 211.19 km 2 (approx. 82 mi 2 ) of which 208.26 km 2 (approx. 80 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 220 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 04732, 04737, 04759 | ||
| Area code : | +1 207 | ||
| FIPS : | 23-01710 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0582331 | ||
| Website : | www.townofashland.org | ||
Ashland (also Ashland Township ) is a town in Aroostook County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there were 1,302 inhabitants in 733 households on an area of 211.7 km².
geography
According to the United States Census Bureau , Ashland has a total area of 211.19 km², of which 208.26 km² is land and 2.93 km² consists of water .
Geographical location
Ashland is located in central Aroostook County. The Aroostook River flows through the Ashland area in a northeastern direction. To the south, Scopan Lake borders the town. A few small rivers run through the area and there are also smaller lakes. The surface is rather flat, the highest point is the 291 m high York Ridge .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Unorganized Territory from Square Lake , 11.3 mi
- Northeast: Castle Hill , 11.2 mi
- Southeast: Unorganized Territory of Central Aroostook , 14 mi
- South: Masardis , 3.5 miles
- Southwest: Garfield Plantation , 8.4 mi
- Northwest: Nashville Plantation , 7.5 mi
City structure
In the north of the town of Ashland are the settlements Frenchville and Sheridan . Ashland is centrally located to the west and Squapan to the south . Next Aroostook (former name of Ashland Post Office), Nowland . Trafton and Wrightville , all three former railroad stations.
climate
The mean mean temperature in Ashland is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At over five and a half meters, the snowfalls between October and May are almost twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.
history
The first settler in this area was William Dalton. He settled at the confluence of the Aroostook River with the Great Machias around 1835. Dalton followed Benjamin Howe a year or two later, who settled on the Aroostook River, not far above him. In 1840 five families lived here. Noah Barker organized the settlement as a plantation at that time . Fairbanks Road to Presque Isle was completed that year. Aroostook Road extends 7 miles off the military road from Mattawamkeag Point to the north of the township. It was laid out a year earlier and was usable from 1843. Previously, the Fish River Road was measured and opened in 1839. It runs north to the mouth of the Fish River.
The surface is flat and the settlers used roughly equal parts for agriculture and the timber industry. There is a village on the east side of the river, near the mouth of the Great Machias.
In 1862 the town was founded with the name Ashland. The name was given in honor of the politician Henry Clay , whose hometown Ashland (Kentucky) was. On February 18, 1862, the settlement was declared a city. A renaming to the name Dalton took place in 1869, but in 1876 the town was renamed back to Ashland. The timber industry peaked in 1915. In memory, the Ashland Logging Museum was opened in 1964 . On September 12, 2002, Maine's worst car accident to date occurred in Ashland. A van manned by 15 Hispanic workers fell off a bridge over the Allagash River. 14 people died in this accident.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Ashland, Maine | ||||||||||
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| year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
| Residents | 606 | 445 | 505 | 568 | ||||||
| year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| Residents | 1080 | 2173 | 2391 | 2198 | 2457 | 2370 | 1980 | 1761 | 1865 | 1542 |
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
| Residents | 1474 | 1302 | ||||||||
Culture and sights
Museums
Ashland has a logging museum , the Ashland Logging Museum .
Economy and Infrastructure
In the west of the city there is a biomass power plant owned by the Boralex group, which, like a paper mill, uses wood, a raw material that is abundant in the Ashland area.
traffic
Maine State Route 11 passes through town and runs north towards Portage and south towards Patten . Ashland is also the starting point of Maine State Route 163 and Maine State Route 227 , both of which lead to Presque Isle. Route 163 runs through Mapleton , Route 227 through Castle Hill .
The Oakfield – Fort Kent railway runs through the city, but is up for sale or decommissioning and is only used irregularly by the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway for freight traffic. The city's former passenger train station was west of the center on Station Street and served from 1896 to 1954. In the Sheridan settlement there was a stop on the railway line.
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is in Presque Isle.
Public facilities
Ashland has its own library, the Ashland Community Library .
The Katahdin Valley Health Center has a facility in Ashland.
education
The Ashland School District is located in Ashland and is part of Maine School Administrative District # 32 . The district includes Ashland Garfield Plantation, Masardis, Oxbow, Portage Lake and Sheridan.
The Ashland District School offers classes from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade for approximately 320 school children. The school is accredited with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
literature
- Edward Wiggin: History of Aroostook . tape 1 . The Star-Herald Press, Presque Isle ME 1922, p. 66 ff . ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- The Town website (English)
- Ashland on maine.gov
- Ashland, Maine on city-data.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ashland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on January 1, 2018
- ^ Rutherford, Phillip R. The Dictionary of Maine Place-Names . Freeport, Maine: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1970. p7
- ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
- ↑ York Ridge . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
- ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
- ^ Ashland, Aroostook County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Ashland, Maine (ME 04732) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on January 1, 2018 (English).
- ^ A b A History and Description of New England, General and Local by Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield
- ↑ www.epodunk.com
- ↑ city-data.com
- ↑ Historical Gazetteer of the United States by Paul T. Hellmann
- ↑ Population 1870-2010 according to census results
- ^ Library - Town of Ashland. In: townofashland.org. Retrieved January 1, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Katahdin Valley Health Center. In: kvhc.org. Retrieved January 1, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Maine Education - School Administrative Reorganization. In: maine.gov. Retrieved December 31, 2017 (American English).
- ^ Ashland District School ( Memento July 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
