Ashford, Alabama

• Eufaulian wins pageant title
  

  Eufaulian Clara Jones enjoys an active lifestyle, so when she heard about the Ms.

• Sheriff Hughes Meets with Area Police Chiefs
  

  Sheriff Hughes invited the Police Chief of Dothan, Ashford, Cottonwood , Webb, Gordon, Columbia, Kinsey and Taylor to meet together and discuss issues of importance to each other.

• Deputies charge Ozark man with sodomy of 9-year-old girl
  

  Houston County Sheriff's deputies arrested an Ozark man and charged him with sodomizing a 9-year-old girl.

• Dothan area church services, March 9
  

  MEC Ministries, 442 S. Alice St., Dothan, will host a Leadership Conference on March 11-12, at 6:30 p.m. and March 13 at 10 a.m. Speaker will be Bishop Karl Van-Reil. For information, call 889-1958. - - - - - - - - - - A gospel concert will be held March 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Mount Gilead Baptist Church, located on Brannon Stand Road in Dothan.

• Overturned - Minor Injuries
  

  HOUSTON COUNTY: Ashford Fire, Ashford Rescue and Ashford Fire responded to Enterprise Church Road and Slico Road to a vehicle accident with injuries.

• Sinquefield Announces Run for the Houston County Commission
  

  A retired delivery man is throwing his hat into the county commissioner race. Douglas Sinquefield says he wants to pursue public service after 30 years with UPS and a lifetime of farming.

• Culver Announces Re-Election Bid
  

  To a packed room at Wiregrass Rehab Center in Dothan, Houston County Commission Chairman Mark Culver announced his bid for re-election. Culver was introduced by his wife Tami, First United Methodist Pastor Jim Sanders, Dr.

• Pilgrimage tour three weeks away
  

  Get ready. A hundred years of architectural styles are planned for display during the 35th Historic Pilgrimage here.

• Ashford man charged with burning woman
  

  An Ashford man faces a felony charge after Houston County Sheriff's investigators charged him with throwing boiling water on a woman, burning her body.

• Structure Fire Reported at 112 Oakwood Lane in Ashford Alabama
  

  Multiple fire units respond to a report of a structure fire at 112 Oakwood Lane in Ashford.

• Animal upkeep rate doesna t cover expenses
  

  In the case of animal traffic, most all lost and stray paws end up in Dothan. The city has an ongoing agreement with nine municipalities and the county to house and/or dispose of their unwanted, stray or lost animals.

• Tornado Watch in effect until 5pm
  

  Tornado Watch 10 is in effect until 500 PM CST for the following locations Al . Alabama counties included are Baldwin Barbour Bullock Butler Chambers Clay Cleburne Coffee Conecuh Coosa Covington Crenshaw Dale Elmore Escambia Geneva Henry Houston Lee Lowndes Macon Monroe Montgomery Pike Randolph Russell Tallapoosa In the Florida panhandle...Holmes ...

• UPDATED Ashford Grass Fire, Mutual Aid Requested
  

  ASHFORD: Ashford Fire Chief Jimmy Posey has called for mutual aid assistance to a growing grass fire.

• Dothan area church services, Jan. 17
  

  New Attitude Christian Fellowship, 1579 Montgomery Highway in Village Plaza, Dothan, will hold its monthly fellowship program on Jan.

• Houston County contributes $30k for Chattahoochee project
  

  Houston County officials are kicking in $30,000 toward developing a long-range plan for water needs, which is required as part of a permitting process to allow the city and county to withdraw water from the Chattahoochee River.

• Ashford man sentenced for fatal DUI crash
  

  An Ashford man will spend six months in jail after he pleaded guilty earlier this week to causing the death of a 21-year-old man in an alcohol-related crash.

• Rape, sodomy of teen girl met on Internet: Ashford man pleads guilty, gets 10-year sentence
  

  Twenty-four-year-old William Chad Dean of Ashford, Ala., received a 10-year prison sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to 5 sexual assault charges involving a 13-year-old Georgia girl, the Dothan Eagle reported this morning.

• Ashford man pleads guilty to rape, sodomy of teenage girl
  

  An Ashford man received a 10-year prison sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to five sexual assault charges involving a 13-year-old Georgia girl.

• Dothan area church services, Jan. 10
  

  Browntown Community Church, 5781 Browntown Road, Graceville, Fla., will hold its 17th annual church anniversary on Jan.

City Description

Ashford is a town in Houston County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,853 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a city; according to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population was 1,932. Ashford is located at 31°11′3″N 85°14′7″W / 31.18417°N 85.23528°W / 31.18417; -85.23528 (31.184032, -85.235286). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 6.1 square miles (15.8 km²), of which, 6.1 square miles (15.8 km²) of it is land and 0.16% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,853 people, 763 households, and 527 families residing in the city. The population density was 303.9 people per square mile (117.3/km²). There were 877 housing units at an average density of 143.8/sq mi (55.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 71.45% White, 27.52% Black or African American, 0.70% Native American, 0.05% Asian, and 0.27% from two or more races. 1.51% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 763 households out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.3% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder

City Contained By:

• Houston County
• Alabama
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 15.798927473 km squared

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