The Greater Northwoods

City in Ashland County

Ashland

Population
3
County
Ashland County
Location
46.537, -90.928

Ashland is the county seat of Ashland County and the largest city on Wisconsin's Lake Superior shore, sitting at the head of Chequamegon Bay where U.S. Highway 2 meets Wisconsin Highway 13. Incorporated in 1887, it had a 2020 Census population of 7,908 (a small part of the city crosses into Bayfield County) and runs a mayor-and-council government as a city of the fourth class. Its identity blends a Great Lakes port-and-railroad history (the vanished Soo Line Ore Dock, an eight-block downtown on the National Register, and its billing as the Historic Mural Capital of Wisconsin) with year-round Lake Superior recreation. Anchors include Tamarack Health Ashland Medical Center (the former Memorial Medical Center), the School District of Ashland (the Oredockers), C.G. Bretting Manufacturing, and the David R. Obey Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center; Northland College, a fixture since 1892, closed in 2025.

The record

590 records name Ashland

  • 466 news
  • 34 notices
  • 31 obituaries
  • 30 opinion
  • 22 events
  • 7 government

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