Welcome to Ash Grove ...
Although we found mention of Ash Grove during our research, we have little information about it.<1> We believe that Ash Grove had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists..
While we are confident that Ash Grove was located in Rooks County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Ash Grove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Ash Grove - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Ash Grove, please Contact Us.
A typical abbreviation for Ash Grove: Ash Grv.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Ash Grove might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Ash Grove would be found within the (785) area code.
Communities Also Named Ash Grove ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are two Kansas communities named Ash Grove: This one is located in Rooks County and the other is located in Lincoln County.
Beyond Kansas, there are 7 communities that are also named Ash Grove - they are located in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Ash Grove.
Other Roadside Stops ...
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Rooks County: www.rookscounty.net/
The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Ash Grove and then turned east". While Ash Grove could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Ash Grove as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Ash Grove could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |