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Logan County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1881formed

2,762pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Oakley, Russell Springs, Winona.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bertrand House	Oakley	Building	2025
Oakley High School Stadium	Oakley	Building	2013
Old Logan County Courthouse	Russell Springs	Building	1972
Winona Consolidated School	Winona	Building	2005

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 1881 (1881-03-13) from Wallace.

ST. JOHN (now LOGAN) created from WALLACE.

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
3,384	1,962	3,223	3,688	4,206	4,036	3,478	3,046	2,762

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Keystone Cemetery	38.74396	-100.86866
Monument Cemetery	39.11827	-101.01706
Page City Cemetery	39.08422	-101.18379
Russell Springs Cemetery	38.91713	-101.20477
Saint Joseph Cemetery	39.133	-100.83132
Winona Cemetery	39.07704	-101.24043

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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