Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

West Logan, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43138. It stands on Clear Fork. The Survey maps it on the Logan quadrangle.

West Logan within Hocking County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Logan, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of West Logan, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 nearby

42 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of West Logan between 2006 and 2020, burning about 122 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
Debris and open burning	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
1 May 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	INBODEN
1 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	2243
3 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BUG
24 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15165
18 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7885

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,417 shown

Museums hold 3,417 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Logan between 1839 and 1975: 2,331 Animalia, 601 Plantae, 431 Fungi, 36 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. L. Welden and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter	1892	W.A. Kellerman
Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 3,417 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Logan: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hocking Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
General Hocking Plant	Brick Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hocking Plant	Brick Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Azbell Stone Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
General Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
General Hocking Clay and Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hocking Valley Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hocking Valley Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Logan Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hocking 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
Logan	1.1 miles	14
South Logan	1.3 miles	14
Enterprise	3.2 miles	14
Ewing	4.6 miles	15
Webb Summit	4.8 miles	14
Rockbridge	5.7 miles	13
Maysville	5.7 miles	14
Blackjack	5.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049312. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.