Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 7 National Register listings in Hocking County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1853.
National Register reference number.80003101- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
42 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Logan City Hall between
2006 and 2020, burning about 120 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,549 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Logan City Hall between 1839 and
1975: 1,838 Animalia, 446 Plantae, 226 Fungi, 35 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. N. Bragg, A. Schrader, Aaron J. Sharp 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Logan City Hall: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Logan, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 47 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 10 flood, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 10 injuries. 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.
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
1,955 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
There are 5 side bays and 3 front bays with 2/2 windows. Slate gabled roof with a triangular pediment at gable end and 3 part entablature (box cornice, soffitt, and what may have originally been a recessed porch and balcony in the center of the east elevation. moved date Condition ruins unexposed 7. Description Check one House is rectangular in shape, common bond brick painted white, with black shutters. architrave). Windows have plain lug sills and stone lintel heads. Mulberry Street entrance in west elevation has a triangular pediment, recessed panel trim with 6 but one may have been originally a window. There is wide horizontal siding over 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Logan City Hall is significant as the embodiment of a distinctive Ohio archi- relatively early in the 19th century, but it had no real stimulus for growth until most rapid and sizeable expansion of the community however followed the arrival of are predominately of the Italianate and Queen Anne styles of the late 19th century. Relatively few buildings from the earlier canal era remain, particularly in the pediment and three-part entablature, is therefore an important manifestation of an earlier segment of the town's heritage. The building was constructed in 1853 as a residence and office for Dr. Edgar T. Brown, the son-in-law of the town's first physician, Dr. Joseph Whipple. Dr.
Brown died Logan's earliest banking institutions, and the city treasurer for over 20 years. The building was purchased by the Logan Village Council in 1881 to house the municipal service director, water and sewer department, auditor, and council chambers. communications 1853 commerce 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 1600-1699 theater Builder/Architect education conservation engineering archeology-historic industry humanitarian Period social/ 1900- law Specific dates _invention tectural type and for what it represents in the community.Logan was platted _economics X_1800-1899 military -art - archeology-prehistoric community planning _ landscape architecture - religion .architecture railroad lines in 1868.
As a result, the historic buildings remaining in Logan the Hocking Canal connected it with the main Ohio and Erie Canal in 1840. The in 1855,and the property remained in the hands of his widow until 1873 when it was Recorder's Office, Probate Court Office and Auditor's Office, Hocking Co. Courthouse, Logan,O. Council minutes, Mayor's Office, Municipal Building, Logan, Ohio. History of Hocking Valley. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1883.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80003101, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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.
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