Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Ashland, NE

Ashland is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, set in a basin where Salt Creek, Wahoo Creek, and Silver Creek all converge between Omaha and Lincoln.

Ashland grew up at a low-water limestone ledge along the bottom of Salt Creek that gave wagon trains on the Oxbow Trail — a variant of the Oregon Trail running from Nebraska City to Fort Kearny — one of the few reliable fords on the otherwise mud-bottomed stream.

Ashland was established in 1870 and named after Ashland, the Kentucky estate of statesman Henry Clay.

The 2020 census counted 3,086 residents in 1,249 households in Ashland, a 25.8% jump from 2,453 residents in 2010 as the city grew into a bedroom community for Omaha and Lincoln.

Ashland sits near Interstate 80 about a 30-minute drive from either Omaha or Lincoln, Nebraska's two largest economic hubs.

Ashland's basin setting at the meeting of three creeks is known for causing intense flooding problems for the town.

Just outside Ashland off Interstate 80 stands the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, a museum of roughly 300,000 square feet displaying Air Force aircraft and missiles, which moved to its Ashland site in 1998.

Eugene T. Mahoney State Park, one of Nebraska's most visited state parks, sits right next door to the SAC Museum near Ashland.

Camp Ashland, the Nebraska Army National Guard Training Center, is one of the Ashland area's major employers.

Ashland is the hometown of Clayton Anderson, a NASA astronaut who flew to the International Space Station, and of Jeff Raikes, a former chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.