Ashton, Wisconsin

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Ashton, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
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Coordinates: 43°08′26″N89°32′29″W / 43.14056°N 89.54139°W / 43.14056; -89.54139
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg Wisconsin
County Dane County
Town Springfield
Elevation
305 m (1,001 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 608
GNIS feature ID1560983 [1]

Ashton is an unincorporated community located in the town of Springfield, in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] [2] The community was named after Thomas Ashton, the president of the British Temperance Emigration Society. [3]

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Ashton is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]

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Baseball field in Ashton

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Ashton, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Ashton, Wisconsin-Wisconsin Historical Society
  3. ↑ Callary, Edward (2016). Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 15. ISBN   978-0-299-30964-0.
  4. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.


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