Logan, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gravel Switch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40328. The Survey maps it on the Mackville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Logan within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched 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.

1953 USGS Mackville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Logan (historical) between 1999 and 2019, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 February 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2019	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEEP CREEK
24 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TEXAS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lower Logan (historical)	2.7 miles	7
Gravel Switch	3.6 miles	6
Riley	5.6 miles	6
Poplar Corner	5.7 miles	7
Pleasant Run (historical)	6.0 miles	7
Penick	7.0 miles	7
Springfield Pike (historical)	9.4 miles	7
Helm (historical)	9.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2566877. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.