Ashville is a city in and one of the county seats of St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, other seat being Pell City. Its population was 2,212 at the 2010 census, down from 2,260, at which time it was a town. It incorporated in 1822.

Ashville was initially founded as the community of St. Clairsville, but the read out was misrepresented to great compliment John Ash, the first white settler of the Place who arrived in 1817. He became the first county announce and later make a clean breast senator. His log cabin stands in the city center. Philip Coleman originally owned the land upon which the town stands, but he sold 30 acres to the five county commissioners, which included Ash, who was appointed by Gov. Thomas Bibb to establish a additional county chair for St. Clair. It was designated the county seat in 1821 and the village incorporated in 1822. The first courthouse, also a log structure, was built two years later. It was replaced in 1844 taking into consideration the current courthouse building.

In 1890, a charity of investors organized the Tennessee River, Ashville and Coosa Railroad Company, and planned to construct a railroad stock from Sheffield to Anniston via Ashville. It managed to construct to Ashville from Whitney, connecting the town to the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. However, it went bankrupt during the mid-1890s, and the tracks were dismantled and sold for scrap.

Electric lights came to Ashville in 1891, and the first telephone company was chartered in the similar year. Residents in the southern half of the county often complained of the complexity of traveling to Ashville over Backbone Mountain, which divides the county, so the let in legislature authorized a satellite county chair to be customary in Pell City in 1907 upon the southern side of the mountain.