Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Ashland, OR

Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, along Interstate 5 about 16 miles north of the California border near the south end of the Rogue Valley.

The 2020 census counted 21,360 residents in Ashland, with 9,832 households.

Settlers arrived in the Ashland area in January 1852, and the community grew around mills on what was then called Mill Creek, first known as "Ashland Mills."

A post office was established in Ashland Mills in 1855, and the Post Office dropped "Mills" from the name in 1871.

Ashland was named after Ashland County, Ohio, the original home of founder Abel Helman, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other founders had family connections.

Ashland is home to Southern Oregon University, whose predecessor, Ashland Academy, was opened in 1872 by Reverend J. H. Skidmore.

The city is home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, whose first performances were arranged by Angus L. Bowmer during the Fourth of July celebration in 1935.

Lithia Park along Ashland Creek was designed by John McLaren, landscape architect of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, after voters approved bonds for a park and mineral spa project.

Ashland has 59 individual structures and four historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Downtown, Siskiyou-Hargadine, Railroad, and Skidmore Academy districts.

The city sits at 1,949 feet above sea level in the foothills of the Siskiyou and Cascade ranges, about 12 miles southeast of Medford.