Ashland, Oregon Ashland, Oregon Location of Ashland in Jackson County and in the state of Oregon Location of Ashland in Jackson County and in the state of Oregon Water 0 sq mi (0 km2) Website City of Ashland Ashland is a town/city in Jackson County, in the State of Oregon.
The town/city is the home of Southern Oregon University (SOU) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF).
Lithia Park along Ashland Creek, historic buildings, and a paved intercity bike trail furnish additional visitor attractions.
Ashland, originally called Ashland Mills, was titled after Ashland County, Ohio, the initial home of founder Abel Helman, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other framers had family connections.
Prior to the arrival of white pioneer in mid-19th century, the Shasta citizens lived in the valley along Ashland Creek approximately where today's town/city is located. Early Hudson's Bay Company hunters and trappers following the Siskiyou Trail passed through the site in the 1820s.
In 1851, gold was identified at Rich Gulch, a tributary of Jackson Creek, and a tent town/city interval on its banks, today's Jacksonville. Settlers appeared in the Ashland region in January 1852, including Robert B.
Skidmore opened a college, Ashland Academy, a predecessor of Southern Oregon University. In 1887, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California, were joined by rail at Ashland.
Until 1926, when most rail service began taking a different route (east through Klamath Falls to avoid the steep undertaking through the Siskiyou Mountains), Ashland thrived on rail trade of small-town products, including pears, peaches, and apples. In 1908 the Women's Civic Improvement Club petitioned for the creation of improve space along Ashland Creek, which became Ashland Canyon Park.
The town/city has 48 individual structures and two historic districts (the Ashland Railroad Addition District and the Downtown District) on the National Register of Historic Places. The structures include the Enders Building (home of the Columbia Hotel), which from 1910 to 1928 contained the biggest mercantile establishment between Sacramento and Portland. Ashland Creek in Lithia Park Ashland is at 1,949 feet (594 m) above sea level in the foothills of the Siskiyou and Cascade ranges, about 15 miles (24 km) north of the California border on Interstate 5 (I-5). About 10 miles (16 km) south of Ashland and 5 miles (8 km) north of the California border is Siskiyou Summit, which at 4,310 feet (1,310 m) is the highest point on I-5. Ashland is about 12 miles (19 km) south of Medford and about 300 miles (480 km) south of Portland. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of about 6.6 square miles (17.1 km2), all land. Ashland Creek and its tributaries begin on the flanks of Mount Ashland, at 7,533 feet (2,296 m) above sea level in the Siskiyou Mountains south of the city.
The creek flows through the town/city to meet Bear Creek, which roughly alongsides I-5 along the east side of Ashland.
Oregon Route 99, running roughly alongside to I-5, passes through downtown Ashland.
Oregon Route 66 enters Ashland from the east and intersects Route 99 near the town/city center. Ashland lies inside Oregon's southwest interior climate zone, in which all but the higher-elevation sites are in the precipitation shadow of the Oregon Coast Range to the west.
The biggest urban areas in this zone in addition to Ashland are Medford and Grants Pass in the Rogue Valley, and Roseburg in the Umpqua River Valley further north.
Cloud cover in close-by Medford varies from an average of 21 percent in July to 86 percent in December. On average, rain falls in Ashland on 114 days each year and totals about 20 inches (510 mm). The average annual snow flurry is only 1.4 inches or 0.04 metres. The average relative humidity, calculated at 4 p.m.
Daily, is 47 percent in Medford, varying from 26 percent in July to 76 percent in December. According to the Koppen climate classification system, Ashland has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb).
The coolest month is December, with an average high temperature of 47 F or 8.3 C, and the warmest month is July, with an average high of about 88 F or 31.1 C. The highest temperature ever recorded in Ashland was 108 F (42.2 C), observed in August 1981, and the record low of 4 F ( 20 C) occurred in December 1972. The wettest "rain year" has been from July 1926 to June 1927 with 29.77 inches (756.2 mm) and the driest from July 1954 to June 1955 with only 10.37 inches (263.4 mm).
The wettest month on record has been December 1964 with 11.28 inches (286.5 mm), but the only other months with over 8 inches or 203.2 millimetres have been December 1996 with 10.89 inches (276.6 mm), November 1903 with 8.10 inches (205.7 mm) and November 1998 with 8.03 inches (204.0 mm).
Climate data for Ashland, Oregon (1981 2010 normals) (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 0.5 0.4 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 1.3 The ethnic makeup of the town/city was about 90% White, 1% African American, 1% Native American, 2% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 1.4% from other competitions, and 4% from two or more competitions.
Ashland has a mayor council government consisting of a mayor and six council members propel by the city's voters to serve four-year terms. John Stromberg, whose term ends in 2016, is the current mayor. Unelected citizen committees assist the mayor and council in setting legislative goals. Pam Marsh, a Democrat from Ashland, represents Ashland and all of Oregon House District 5 in the state legislature. As part of Oregon Senate District 3, Ashland is represented by Republican Alan De - Boer. At the federal level, Greg Walden, a Republican, speaks for Ashland and the rest of Oregon's 2nd congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, serve the state of Oregon in the United States Senate. Historically, Ashland has been something of a political outlier in southwest Oregon. In the presidential election of 1860, Ashland favored Abraham Lincoln while its neighbors firmly preferred pro-slavery candidates. In the early 1900s, Ashland voters supported women's suffrage and prohibition, generally out of step with the rest of the region. In more recent elections, liberal Ashland has supported tax levies and surroundingal regulations opposed by voters elsewhere in Jackson and close-by counties. Critics sometimes refer to the town/city as the People's Republic of Ashland. The town's biggest employer is Southern Oregon University (SOU), which has a faculty and staff of more than 750. In addition to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the university, health-service providers make momentous contributions to the economy.
Businesses related to outside recreation, transportation, technology, and light manufacturing are also important. In 2010, the Shakespeare Festival working about 500 citizens , the hospital about 400, the enhance schools about 300, and the City of Ashland about 250. The Bathroom Readers' Press, which produces the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books, is based in Ashland and San Diego. Brammo, specializing in battery-electric motorcycles, was based in Ashland but moved to Talent. The Oregon Cabaret Theater features musicals and comedy throughout the year. Opened in 1986, the dinner theater is situated in a former First Baptist Church assembled in Mission Revival style. The Ashland Independent Film Festival, which shows global and domestic films of almost every genre, takes place each April in the Varsity Theatre downtown.
The annual Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) is a nonprofit organization that encourages playwrights to precarious new work through enhance readings.
The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland is the world's only laboratory dedicated to solving crimes against wildlife.
The Ashland City Band (ACB) was organized in the late 19th century as the Ashland Brass Band. The band used an octagonal gazebo-style bandstand in Lithia Park until the Butler Memorial Band Shell was assembled in Lithia Park in 1946. The ACB gives enhance concerts there each summer between June and August. Lithia Park is a 93-acre (38 ha) park, including 42 acres (17 ha) on the National Register of Historic Places, that begins near the downtown shopping region and extends upstream along Ashland Creek near the center of the city. It includes two ponds, a Japanese garden, tennis courts, two enhance greens, a bandshell (outdoor stage) and miles of hiking trails.
The name Lithia comes from natural mineral water found in the Ashland area. It has a strong mineral taste and slight effervescence, and the lithia water fountains found on the town plaza are incessantly tasted by unsuspecting tourists (often at the behest of inhabitants or incessant visitors who use the fountains as a cheap, humorous Ashland initiation rite). A hiking and biking path, the Bear Creek Greenway, begins in Ashland near the intersection of West Nevada Street with Helman Street, close to the confluence of Ashland Creek (which flows through Lithia Park). with Bear Creek. The 25-mile (40 km) path follows Bear Creek between Ashland and Central Point and passes through Talent, Phoenix, and Medford. Southern Oregon University, a enhance co-ed four-year college founded in 1926, offers courses of study toward degrees in the liberal arts, science, business, and education.
The Ashland School District oversees three elementary schools, one of which is a magnet school concentrated on science and the arts; one middle school; one high school; and a improve learning center. Ashland High School was ranked 1,395th best among the nation's enhance high schools and 15th best in Oregon by U.S.
The Ashland Daily Tidings is presented Monday through Saturday. The Mail Tribune, a morning daily presented Monday through Sunday in Medford, also serves Ashland. Fifteen airways broadcasts operate in the region around Ashland, including Jefferson Public Radio and KSKQ, an autonomous non-profit transmitting at 89.5 FM. A former student-run airways broadcast with the call letters KSOC and the nickname "Radio Free Ashland" shut down in February 2013 after 14 years of broadcasting. Rogue Valley Community Television, based at Southern Oregon University, serves Jackson and Josephine counties. Ashland has no commercial tv stations, but close-by Medford has seven. The Asante Ashland Community Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital that is part of the Asante community network based in Medford.
Ashland Public Library The Ashland Public Library building was period from the city's initial Carnegie library. In 2003, the historic Carnegie portion of the library was restored. In 2006, budget enigma led to the method in April 2007 of the Ashland Library and 14 the rest in Jackson County.
History. Although some of its services are handled by a private company, Library Systems and Services, the Ashland branch remains part of the Jackson County network of enhance libraries. Rogue Valley Transportation District (RVTD) Route 10 and Route 15 provides bus service to much of the city, both routes running every 30 minutes providing a combined service recurrence of 15 minutes. Route 10 also provides service to Medford, where passengers can connect to any of the other six RVTD routes as well as to Southwest POINT, a daily shuttle directed by Klamath Shuttle carrying passengers between Brookings and the Amtrak station in Klamath Falls. The Klamath Falls Amtrak Station serves the Coast Starlight long-haul passenger train on track owned by the Union Pacific Railroad. Ashland Municipal Airport, with a 3,600-foot (1,100 m) asphalt runway, offers general aviation services. Medford International Airport, 12 miles (19 km) from Ashland, also serves the city. The City of Ashland moved to advancement small-town broadband Internet access in the late 1990s by creating the Ashland Fiber Network (AFN) and building a fiber optic ring inside the town/city boundaries. However, by 2006 the town/city faced problem servicing AFN's debt load, which was approaching $15.5 million. The town/city hired a new AFN director, Joe Franell, who suggested scrapping cable tv service while retaining the more profitable high-speed Internet access. In October 2006, the cable tv service was transferred to a small-town company, Ashland Home Net, while the City retained both the transit framework and the wholesale Internet business. Ashland has one sister city: Lawson Fusao Inada (1938 ), Oregon Poet Laureate 2006 10, Professor Emeritus at Southern Oregon University "Incorporated Cities: Ashland".
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