Ashland is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States.

Ashland is located at the site of a low-water limestone ledge along the bottom of Salt Creek, an otherwise mud-bottomed stream that was a formidable obstacle for wagon trains on the great westward migrations of the late 1840s and 1850s.

The limestone bottom of Salt Creek at Ashland made it an excellent fording site.

[4] Today, Ashland benefits by its proximity to Interstate 80 and the cities of Omaha and Lincoln.

While in some respects Ashland is becoming a "bedroom community" of those much larger cities, it retains a rural character.

That coherence as a community, and a 30-minute drive to either of the state's economic hubs, has led to a building boom in the late 1990s and the 2000s.

[citation needed] Ashland is the hometown of astronaut Clayton Anderson.

[10] Ashland is the hometown of Jeff Raikes, former chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.