 ashley is a borough in luzerne county, pennsylvania, one mile (2&nbsp;km) from wilkes barre. it was a productive coal-mining area at the start of the twentieth century. population in 1900, 4,046; in 1910, 5,601; and in 1940, 6,371. the population was 2,790 at the 2010 census. located in ashley is the huber breaker, the largest of its kind, built to process the anthracite coal from several local collieries.http://www.huberbreaker.org/index.html retrieved 2009-04-20. ==geography== ashley is located at  (41.214182, -75.899387). according to the united states census bureau, the borough has a total area of {{convert|
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