Utah State University (USU), with its many educational, cultural, agricultural, and athletic programs, was established in 1888. The eastern portion of Logan includes the Cliffside and Island neighborhoods, as well as the university district. The downtown area also houses retail and cultural outlets, as well as the municipal and county buildings and courthouses. Along Center Street, which intersects Logan's Historic District, are a number of stately houses on the National Register of Historic Places. Both buildings are owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Among them are the Logan Tabernacle and Logan Utah Temple, which was constructed on the highest hill in the valley so as to be seen for miles in all directions. Logan's downtown area is in the center of the city and is noted for its many historic buildings and landmarks. Most of Logan's commercial businesses are along Main Street, which spans the entire city. This street grid is typical of many towns and cities founded by Latter-day Saints in the Mormon Corridor. Each block north, east, south, or west of the origin accumulates in increments of 100 (e.g., 100 North, 100 East), though some streets have non-numeric names. Logan's city grid originates from its Main and Center Street block, with Main Street running north and south, and Center east and west. Ĭlimate data for Logan, Utah ( Utah State University), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1893–present This reduces the air quality to unhealthy levels and can result in the worst air pollution levels in the U.S. These temperature inversions trap cold air and pollutants and allow thick smog to accumulate in the valley about three percent of the time. Like other areas in northern Utah, during mid-winter, high-pressure systems often situate themselves over Cache Valley, leading to strong temperature inversions. Precipitation tends to be heaviest in the spring months. Logan has a humid continental climate ( Köppen: Dfa/ Dfb) with very warm though usually dry summers and cold winters with moderate snowfall. To the north and south of Logan are rapidly growing residential suburbs. To the west of Logan lie flatlands that contain both farmland and marshes. This created a low-lying area with very steep slopes that reach into the rest of town and to the Logan River bottomlands. The Logan River later cut down through these sedimentary deposits following the draining of Lake Bonneville approximately 14,500 years ago. The eastern portions of the city are constructed on top of 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.

Mount Logan rises to an elevation of 9,710 feet (2,960 m) immediately to the east, and south of Logan Canyon.

The city lies near the eastern edge of Cache Valley on the western slopes of the Bear River Mountains. View over Logan and the LDS Temple and the Wellsville RangeĪccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.5 square miles (48.0 km 2), of which 18.0 square miles (46.5 km 2) is land and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km 2), or 3.16%, is water. It is about 82 miles (132 km) north of Salt Lake City. Logan is in northern Utah, 47 miles (76 km) north of Ogden, on the Logan River. Logan grew to about 20,000 in the mid-1960s, and according to Census estimates, exceeded 50,000 in 2015. Logan's growth reflects settlement and post-war booms along with other changes incidental to conditions in the West. Brigham Young College was founded here on Aug(and closed in 1926), and Utah State University – then called the Agricultural College of Utah – was founded in 1888. Logan was incorporated on January 17, 1866. They named their new community 'Logan' for Ephraim Logan, an early fur trapper in the area.

The town of Logan was founded in 1859 by settlers sent by Brigham Young to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River. Logan also is the location of the main campus of Utah State University. The Logan metropolitan area contained 125,442 people as of the 2010 census and was declared by Morgan Quitno in 20 to be the safest in the United States in those years. 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 2020 census recorded the population was 52,778. Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States.

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