Logan (West Virginia)

Logan is a city of 1,500 people (2019) in West Virginia. The city occupies narrow stretches of flat land along the Guyandotte River and it's local tributaries, abutting extremely steep hills. Once anchored by the coal mining industry, It is known for its connection to the notorious Hatfield-McCoy feud.

As many of the local coal seams have been mined to empty, the number of people employed in the mineral extraction industry has declined. This has resulted in noticeable population decline for several decades.

Understand
The town was chartered in 1852 as Aracoma, after the daughter of a Shawnee chief, and renamed in 1907 after the Mingo chief Logan.

The area around Logan (specifically Williamson) was home to the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which started with a dispute about the ownership of a pig and escalated until over a dozen members of the two families had been murdered. The Hatfield family was from West Virginia (the McCoys being just across the border in Kentucky), and the family patriarch, William Anderson aka Devil Anse, is buried in the area.

Logan's downtown appears large for a city of its population because Logan contains many suburban areas that not incorporated into the city proper. Logan County, of which Logan is the primary city, had a population of 32,567 at the 2020 census.

Get in
Logan is on WV-10, just east of US-119 which runs between Charleston and Pikeville, Kentucky.

Get around
WV-10 goes through the heart of Logan, US-119 skirts the downtown area less than 3 miles to the west.

Notable suburban towns include Chapmanville to the north, where WV-10 and US-119 intersect; and Man to the south, where WV-80 south towards Gilbert begins at WV-10.

Do

 * Chapmanville Apple Butter Festival, Chapmanville High School in Chapmanville, . Held one weekend in late September. Apple butter making, merchandise booths, food and live entertainment.
 * Chapmanville Apple Butter Festival, Chapmanville High School in Chapmanville, . Held one weekend in late September. Apple butter making, merchandise booths, food and live entertainment.
 * Chapmanville Apple Butter Festival, Chapmanville High School in Chapmanville, . Held one weekend in late September. Apple butter making, merchandise booths, food and live entertainment.

Learn

 * The local paper is the  Logan Banner, 435 Stratton Street,. Daily newspaper published since 1888.

Go next

 * Gilbert is just over half an hour south on WV-80
 * Williamson is just over half an hour south on US-119
 * Charleston is a little over 1 hour northeast on US-119.
 * Huntington is a little over 1.5 hours northwest on WV-10.
 * Pineville is 1 hour southeast on WV-10