BlockLogan, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62856. The Survey maps it on the Thompsonville quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLogan fell from 327 to 320 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 327 | |
| 2020 | 320 | -7 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1909 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Thompsonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
5,733 words on this townshipThe Prospects of Franklin County, Illinois, 1912, published 1912 names this settlement in its chapter on Benton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
No city of its size in Southern Illinois is better supplied with school facilities than is the City of Benton. The people of Benton believe in education and they gladly pay high salaries for competent teachers. The public grade schools are housed in the Lincoln and Logan buildings, both of which are massive brick structures, while the Township High School building, recently completed, is superb in all its appointments and can accommodate 400 students.
Passage source: The Prospects of Franklin County, Illinois, 1912, published 1912.
Benton is a stronghold of Masonry. Benton Lodge No. 64, A. F. and A. M., is probably the oldest Masonic order in Southern Illinois, having numbered General John A. Logan, Daniel M. Browning and Monroe C. Crawford among its early members. The W. R. Ward Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, No. 223, was instituted in October, 1907, and has a membership of 110. The White Shrine of Jerusalem is also one of the oldest orders here and is in flourishing condition, while the Order of the Eastern Star has a large membership and is most prosperous.
Passage source: The Prospects of Franklin County, Illinois, 1912, published 1912.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Benton Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smothersville | 0.1 miles | 18 | |
| Parrish | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Groat | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Bessie | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Steel City | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Deering City | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Greenville (historical) | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Boothby | 4.6 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Logan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2025834 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409731. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.