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Ashland is a city in Ashland County, Ohio, and its county seat, located about 66 miles southwest of Cleveland.

Ashland was laid out by William Montgomery in 1815 under the name Uniontown, but was forced to rename itself in 1822 because Ohio already had another Uniontown.

The new name Ashland was chosen by supporters of Kentucky congressman Henry Clay, after Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky.

Ashland had 19,225 residents at the 2020 census, living in 8,140 households, about 60 percent of them owner-occupied.

Ashland University was founded in 1878 as Ashland College by the German Baptist Brethren Church with financial help from the city; it became Ashland University in 1989 and is also home to Ashland Theological Seminary.

Ashland was once known as the "balloon capital of the world": native Harry Ross Gill invented the cigar-shaped balloon in 1912, and Ashland's latex companies grew so large that at one point more than half of the world's toy balloons were produced in the Ashland area.

Ashland still celebrates that heritage with the Ashland BalloonFest, a hot-air balloon festival held annually at Freer Field since 1990.

F.E. Myers & Bro., maker of a patented double-action water pump, employed 800 workers by 1915 and was the largest of 47 factories then operating in Ashland.

Ashland's official nickname is the "World Headquarters of Nice People," and its motto is "Someplace Special."

Ashland High School, home of the Arrows, is the only high school in the Ashland City School District and enrolls around 1,200 students.