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Logan County, Colorado

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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12historic places

—earliest paper

1887formed

21,528pop. 2020

17cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Sterling, Proctor.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Colorado is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Logan titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Downtown Sterling Historic District	Sterling	District	2013
First United Presbyterian Church	Sterling	Building	1982
Harris, W. C., House	Sterling	Building	1984
I and M Building	Sterling	Building	1982
Logan County Courthouse	Sterling	Building	1979
Luft, Conrad, Sr., House	Sterling	Building	1984
Pantall Elementary School	Sterling		2015
Powell and Blair Stone Ranch	Proctor	Building	2004
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church	Sterling	Building	1982
Sterling Public Library	Sterling	Building	2001
Sterling Union Pacific Railroad Depot	Sterling	Building	1986
US Post Office, Federal Building, and Federal Courthouse-Sterling Main	Sterling	Building	1986

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Logan was formed in 1887 (1887-02-25) from Weld.

LOGAN created from WELD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Logan County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,070	3,292	18,427	18,370	17,187	20,302	19,800	20,504	21,528

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

17 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 17 of 17 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barber Cemetery	40.99435	-102.87351
Barber Cemetery	None	None
Fleming Cemetery	40.68748	-102.8488
Kelly Cemetery	None	None
Kelly Community Cemetery	40.47148	-103.04647
Leroy Cemetery	40.55424	-102.91326
Lynch Twin Buttes Cemetery	40.91026	-102.77213
Merino Cemetery	40.46386	-103.39354
New Haven Cemetery	40.48249	-102.8411
New Haven Cemetery	None	None
Peetz Cemetery	40.97093	-103.11605
Prairie Lawn Cemetery	40.55175	-103.49514
Riverside Cemetery	40.59276	-103.2302
Rockland Cemetery	40.4522	-102.69241
Saint Peters Cemetery	40.55284	-102.81867
Sunset Memorial Gardens	None	None
Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery	40.67444	-103.2036

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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