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Logan, Utah
Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population at 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 147,908 people as of the 2020 census. Logan has the main campus of Utah State University.
The town of Logan was founded in 1859 by settlers Brigham Young sent to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River. They named their new community "Logan" for Ephraim Logan, an early fur trapper in the area. Logan was incorporated on January 17, 1866.
Brigham Young College was founded in Logan on August 6, 1877. Utah State University, originally called the Agricultural College of Utah, was founded in 1888. Brigham Young College, run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, closed in 1926 and its library and manuscripts were given to Utah State University.[citation needed]
Logan's growth reflects settlement and postwar booms along with other changes incidental to conditions in the West. Logan grew to about 20,000 in the mid-1960s, and according to census estimates, exceeded 50,000 in 2015.
Logan is situated on the Logan River in northern Utah, about 47 miles (76 km) north of Ogden and 82 miles (132 km) north of Salt Lake City.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 18.5 square miles (48.0 km2), of which 18.0 square miles (46.5 km2) is land and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 3.16%, is water.
The city lies near the eastern edge of Cache Valley on the western slopes of the Bear River Mountains. Mount Logan rises to an elevation of 9,710 feet (2,960 m) immediately to the east, and south of Logan Canyon. The eastern portions of the city are atop shelf-like "benches", late Pleistocene sedimentary deposits created by the glacially fed Logan River feeding into the northern stretches of Lake Bonneville, building a "Gilbert-type" river delta over several thousand years. The Logan River later cut down through these sedimentary deposits after the draining of Lake Bonneville about 14,500 years ago. This created a low-lying area with very steep slopes that reach into the rest of town and to the Logan River bottomlands. West of Logan lie flatlands that contain both farmland and marshes. North and south of Logan are rapidly growing residential suburbs.
Logan has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsa) with very warm and usually dry summers and cold winters with moderate snowfall. Precipitation tends to be heaviest in the spring. Like other areas in northern Utah, during mid-winter, high-pressure systems often form over Cache Valley, leading to strong temperature inversions that trap cold air and pollutants and allow thick smog to accumulate in the valley about three percent of the time. This reduces the air quality to unhealthy levels and can result in the worst air pollution levels in the U.S.
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Logan, Utah
Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population at 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 147,908 people as of the 2020 census. Logan has the main campus of Utah State University.
The town of Logan was founded in 1859 by settlers Brigham Young sent to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River. They named their new community "Logan" for Ephraim Logan, an early fur trapper in the area. Logan was incorporated on January 17, 1866.
Brigham Young College was founded in Logan on August 6, 1877. Utah State University, originally called the Agricultural College of Utah, was founded in 1888. Brigham Young College, run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, closed in 1926 and its library and manuscripts were given to Utah State University.[citation needed]
Logan's growth reflects settlement and postwar booms along with other changes incidental to conditions in the West. Logan grew to about 20,000 in the mid-1960s, and according to census estimates, exceeded 50,000 in 2015.
Logan is situated on the Logan River in northern Utah, about 47 miles (76 km) north of Ogden and 82 miles (132 km) north of Salt Lake City.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 18.5 square miles (48.0 km2), of which 18.0 square miles (46.5 km2) is land and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 3.16%, is water.
The city lies near the eastern edge of Cache Valley on the western slopes of the Bear River Mountains. Mount Logan rises to an elevation of 9,710 feet (2,960 m) immediately to the east, and south of Logan Canyon. The eastern portions of the city are atop shelf-like "benches", late Pleistocene sedimentary deposits created by the glacially fed Logan River feeding into the northern stretches of Lake Bonneville, building a "Gilbert-type" river delta over several thousand years. The Logan River later cut down through these sedimentary deposits after the draining of Lake Bonneville about 14,500 years ago. This created a low-lying area with very steep slopes that reach into the rest of town and to the Logan River bottomlands. West of Logan lie flatlands that contain both farmland and marshes. North and south of Logan are rapidly growing residential suburbs.
Logan has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsa) with very warm and usually dry summers and cold winters with moderate snowfall. Precipitation tends to be heaviest in the spring. Like other areas in northern Utah, during mid-winter, high-pressure systems often form over Cache Valley, leading to strong temperature inversions that trap cold air and pollutants and allow thick smog to accumulate in the valley about three percent of the time. This reduces the air quality to unhealthy levels and can result in the worst air pollution levels in the U.S.