Mitchell County Kansas 9 towns 719 square miles

Community, Mitchell County

Asherville

One of the oldest settlements in the valley, with a working grain elevator, river bottom ground, and a Heritage Alliance kiosk at the north edge of town.

The road into Asherville with the grain elevator ahead
The road into Asherville Asherville

The place

John Rees kept a grocery at the Asherville townsite as early as 1867. In 2000 the township still counted 122 people; today the commerce is a modern grain elevator and acres of Solomon River bottom ground.

Solomon Valley Highway 24 Heritage Alliance

Local landmarks

  • The Heritage Alliance kiosk and antique farm equipment
  • The Indian raid victims' cemetery a mile north