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Logan, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Buck Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65705. The Survey maps it on the Billings quadrangle.

Logan within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Logan between 1992 and 2017, burning about 250 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 August 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 July 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Logan: 42 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Mason QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Richeys MineLeadPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Uptegraf Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronProspect
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronProspect

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logan in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023Thunderstorm WindLogan$40,000Multiple trees and powers lines were reported down on Highway 14.
April 1994HailLogan$50no account filed
April 2025HailLogan-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLogan-A large tree was reported down.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Marionville1.4 miles19
McKinley3.3 miles19
Bonham5.1 miles12
Orange5.7 miles19
Aurora6.2 miles12
Sage Hill7.2 miles12
Elliott7.2 miles19
Chesapeake7.9 miles19

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 LoganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666894The 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 721412. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.