Ashley is a city in and the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 613 at the 2020 census.
History
Ashley was laid out in 1888 when the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad was extended to that point. The city was named for Ashley E. Morrow, a railroad man. A post office has been in operation at Ashley since 1888. The McIntosh County Courthouse was built in 1919.
Some of the 1,200 Jews who immigrated to North Dakota from the Russian Empire settled under the Homestead Acts in and around Ashley from the 1880s to 1930s. A number of them were buried in the Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
Climate
Ashley has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb), with an annual precipitation average of . Winters are frigid and dry with moderate snowfall, while summers are wetter and very warm with pleasant mornings.