Ash'land, KY., a city in Boyd co., 144 mi. s. e. of Cincinnati, on the Ohio River and on the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Norfolk and Western railroads. Its manufactures include nails, sheet steel and steel billets, brick, leather and furniture, and it has an important trade in coal, iron ore and lumber. The place was settled in 1854 and became a city in 1870. Population in 1910, 8688.