Ashley (Pennsylvania)
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| Ashley | |||
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 The Wells Block with the Post Office in Ashley |
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| Location in Pennsylvania | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1830 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Pennsylvania | ||
| County : | Lucerne County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 13 ′ N , 75 ° 54 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 2,710 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 1,129.2 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 2.4 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.4 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 217 m | ||
| Postal code : | 18706 | ||
| Area code : | +1 570 | ||
| FIPS : | 42-03272 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1213946 | ||
Ashley is a city in Luzerne County in the US state of Pennsylvania . It has less than 3,000 inhabitants (2010 census) on an area of 2.4 km².
During the 19th century the name of the settlement was changed several times. It was called Coalville in the 1850s and 1860s and Hendricksburg from 1867. The place bears its current name since 1871 after Herbert Henry Ashley, a local mining company. In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, Ashley produced large quantities of coal.
sons and daughters of the town
- Eusebius Joseph Beltran (born 1934), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City
- Russell Johnson (1924-2014), actor
- Walter Tewksbury (1876–1968), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
Individual evidence
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania . Somerset Publishers, 2001, ISBN 978-0-403-09566-7 , pp. 484 (English, 856 pp.).