Logan, Ohio
Logan, Ohio Location of Logan, Ohio Location of Logan, Ohio The Hocking County Courthouse in Logan Logan is a town/city in Hocking County, Ohio, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Hocking County. Logan is positioned in southeast Ohio, on the Hocking River 48 miles southeast of Columbus.
Logan is the governmental center of county of Hocking County, Ohio.
According to the Ohio Historical Society, Logan had about 250 inhabitants in 1825, and 600 by 1840.
The Hocking River provided sufficient water power for the purpose of operating grist and sawmills, especially at the falls above Logan.
The town of Logan was slow to progress until the opening of the Hocking Canal, a branch of the Ohio and Erie Canal, in 1838.
Logan was incorporated as a town/city in 1839. At its height amid the Civil War, Ohio was the dominant producer of iron for implements and weapons. No less than forty-six furnaces were firing in southern Ohio's six-county Hanging Rock Iron Region.
The clay soils of the Hocking Valley helped Ohio turn into a prestige in clay products.
In more recent history, prominent industrialized names in Logan have encompassed Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Selkirk Metalbestos, General Electric, Logan Clay Products, Smead, Amanda Bent Bolt, Osburn Associates, Keynes Brothers, and Carborundum.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.93 square miles (12.77 km2), of which 4.79 square miles (12.41 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. There were 2,982 homeholds of which 31.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 15.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 38.6% were non-families.
24.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.6% were from 25 to 44; 24.5% were from 45 to 64; and 17.5% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 2,790 homeholds out of which 30.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.6% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.4% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Every year, on Father's Day weekend, the downtown streets of Logan, Ohio come alive with the celebration of the washboard, as a musical instrument.
Logan is the home of the Columbus Washboard Company, the only remaining washboard manufacturing business in the U.S.
On the first Saturday of October, Logan High School hosts its annual marching band festival, the Logan Fall Festival of Bands.
During the last week of July, the Insea Sound Shop of Nelsonville, Ohio, holds the annual Diamond Music Festival at the Isaac Walton Clubhouse, situated on the banks of Lake Logan.
Logan holds the record of being the hometown of the earliest radio show in Ohio.
The Columbus Washboard Company is positioned in Logan.
Logan was the first town/city in the state of Ohio to install a double roundabout.
"Fraunfelter propel as Logan City Mayor".
Ohio Historical Society Ohio History Central, 2005-07-01.
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties" (PDF).
Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census.
"Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties" (PDF).
Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census.
"Population: Ohio" (PDF).
"Population: Ohio" (PDF).
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
City of Logan Logan Hocking Library Municipalities and communities of Hocking County, Ohio, United States County seat: Logan This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Cities in Ohio - Cities in Hocking County, Ohio - County seats in Ohio - Populated places established in 1816
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