According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all land.

According to the tale, McCurry was given a home and store building as payment for moving the post office to the new settlement.

The town was named for Mr. Asher, who supplied the land with the consideration the community would carry his namesake, though he never lived there.

For the next 40 years, Asher would serve as the termination point for the branch and its engine, "Old Beck".

Rapid construction of railroads opened up 400 square miles (1,000 km2) of a fertile section of the South Canadian River valley to shipping facilities.

The Jennings Company advertised investment in the growing town and new factories and industries of various kinds soon located in Asher.

The people of Asher would not give up, and pulled together town resources and constructed a bridge across the Canadian River.

Asher, originally a cotton farming community, suffered in its early years from crop losses caused by boll weevils.

Farmers were then dealt a further blow when the town's first two cotton gins were destroyed by fire.

These setbacks compounded the loss of trade and left the town in dire straits.

It was also around this time that executives moved into Asher and purchased enormous amounts of supplies and merchandise at inflated prices.

Many leading families of Oklahoma, such as the McAlisters, the O'Dells, the Patterson's, the Campbells and the Byruns, lived in the town.

Asher was slated to be the county seat and it was planned that the greater part of Tecumseh would move down to form an impressive community.

This time the people connected to the well were local citizens and were cautious and conservative in their estimates and spending.

[10][11][12] Asher was dealt another setback in 1967 when SH-18 was taken out of commission and traffic was diverted west of town on the new US Highway 177.

The final business, Green's Market, which was located on Division Street (old SH-18) closed in 1985, after serving the community for 40 years.

The monument is located in Centennial Park, on the grounds of the Santa Fe Museum, in Shawnee, Oklahoma.