Fort Ashby Map
Fort Ashby is an census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, West Virginia along Patterson Creek. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,380 at the 2010 census. The community was originally chartered as Frankfort and then known as Alaska before it took the name of its well-known historic landmark.
Fort Ashby is located at 39°29?52?N 78°46?4?W / 39.49778°N 78.76778°W / 39.49778; -78.76778 (39.497767, -78.767851).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.2 km² (3.6 mi²). 9.2 km² (3.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (1.03%) is water.
Nearby cities include Cumberland, Romney, Midland, Keyser, Lonaconing.