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History · Logan Township

36% of Logan Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Logan Mills Covered Bridge and the Logan Mills Gristmill. Below: maps from 1921 on and the census since 1980.

2on the National Register
36%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Logan Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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Start Logan Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Logan Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Logan Mills
1840–1939
Tylersville
1854–today
Booneville
1870–1937
Greenburr
1882–1955
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BoonevilleGreenburrLogan MillsTylersville
8cemeteries and burying grounds inside Logan Township
Emanuel ReformedEsherSaint Johns Evangelical LutheranSaint Paul Evangelical United BrethrenTrinity United MethodistTylersville EvangelicalTylersville Lutheran and ReformedUnion

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

On the map

Logan Township on the map, 1921 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Logan Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Logan Township on the 1921 USGS mapLogan Township on the 1944 USGS mapLogan Township on the 1965 USGS mapLogan Township on the 1973 USGS mapLogan Township on the 1986 USGS map1921Lock Haven sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Logan Township.

The story

How Logan Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Logan Township.

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The Logan Mills Covered Bridge and Logan Mills Gristmill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Logan Township, 1840 to 1939

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1840Post officeThe Logan Mills post office opens
  3. 1854Post officeThe Tylersville post office opens
  4. 1870Post officeThe Booneville post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1921On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1937Post officeThe Booneville post office closes
  8. 1939Post officeThe Logan Mills post office closes
By decade

Logan Township, decade by decade

On the National Register

2 historic places in Logan Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Logan Mills Covered Bridge

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Logan Township, census by census

0200400600800198020002020Peak: 872

Between 730 and 872 people in every census since 1980.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Logan Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Logan Township

Nobody well known was born in Logan Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Logan Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Logan Township?

Two places: the Logan Mills Covered Bridge (listed 1979) and the Logan Mills Gristmill (1980).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (3), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.