Logan, Utah Logan, Utah Location in Cache County and the state of Utah Location in Cache County and the state of Utah Named for Logan River Logan is a town/city in Cache County, Utah, United States.
As of the 2010 census the populace was 48,174, with an estimated populace of 48,997 in 2014. Logan is the governmental center of county of Cache County and the principal town/city of the Logan, UT-ID Metropolitan Statistical Area, which contains Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho.
The Logan urbane region contained 125,442 citizens as of the 2010 census. In 2005 and 2007, Morgan Quitno declared the Logan urbane region the safest in the United States. Logan is the locale of the chief campus of Utah State University.
The town of Logan was established in 1859 by pioneer sent by Brigham Young to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River. They titled their new improve "Logan" for Ephraim Logan, an early fur trapper in the area.
Logan was incorporated on 17 January 1866. Brigham Young College was established here in 1878 (but later closed), and Utah State University then called the Agricultural College of Utah was established in 1888.
Logan interval to about 20,000 in the mid-1960s, and as stated to Enumeration estimates, exceeded 50,000 in 2015. Logan is positioned in northern Utah, 47 miles (76 km) north of Ogden, on the Logan River.
Mount Logan rises to an altitude of 9,710 feet (2,960 m) immediately to the east, and south of Logan Canyon.
The easterly portions of the town/city are constructed on top of shelf-like "benches", late Pleistocene sedimentary deposits that were created by the glacially fed Logan River feeding into the northern stretches of Lake Bonneville, building a "Gilbert-type" river delta over a several thousand years.
The Logan River later cut down through these sedimentary deposits following the draining of Lake Bonneville roughly 14,500 years ago.
This created a low-lying region with very steep slopes that reach into the rest of town and to the Logan River bottomlands.
To the north and south of Logan are quickly growing residentiary suburbs.
Similar to other areas in northern Utah, amid mid-winter high pressure systems often situate themselves over Cache Valley, dominant to strong temperature inversions.
Climate data for Logan, Utah Logan's town/city grid originates from its Main and Center Street block, with Main Street running north and south, and Center east and west.
Most of Logan's commercial businesses are positioned along Main Street, which spans the entire city.
Logan's downtown region is positioned in the center of the town/city and is noted for its many historic buildings and landmarks.
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.
Along Center Street, which intersects Logan's Historic District, are a number of stately homes on the National Register of Historic Places.
The easterly portion of Logan contains the Cliffside and Island neighborhoods, as well as the University district.
USU is the city's biggest employer, and it has an enrollment of about 17,000 pupils in Logan.
Logan's southern portion is a mixture of commercial and residentiary, and includes portions of the Logan River as well as the fairgrounds and aquatic center.
The northern region of Logan serves partly as a retail precinct with various shops and restaurants, including the Cache Valley Mall.
Logan has the region's biggest and most elected hospital, Logan Regional Hospital.
The portion of Logan is set aside as a center for light industry, especially along the region of 1000 West Street, and it also includes residentiary communities.
Panorama overlooking Logan north into Idaho As of the 2000 Enumeration there were 13,902 homeholds counted in Logan, out of which 33.4% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 55.1% were married couples residing together, 7.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.0% were non-families.
Logan City Council Members include Eugene Needham, Holly Daines, Karl Ward, Herm Olsen, and Jeanie Simmonds. Logan City does not use districts for voting and election purposes, as the mayor and council members are voted for by an overall vote of the population.
This may be an influence of the high percentage of Utah State University faculty and staff living in the city.
Average ACT scores in the Logan School District in 2005 were 21.5 for English, 21.3 for math, 22.7 for reading, 22.1 for science and 22 composite score.
Average ACT scores in the Cache County School District, which surrounds Logan city, in 2005 were 20.9 in English, 20.8 in math, 22.5 in reading, 21.5 in science and 21.5 composite score.
250 Logan High pupils took the ACT in 2005 and 593 Mountain Crest/Sky View/Cache High pupils (in Cache County School District) took the test in 2005.
Approximately $4,146 is spent per student in the Logan School District.
There are six elementary schools (K-5), one middle school, (6 8), and one high school (9 12), with two campuses, in Logan.
There is also a charter high school in Logan and one alternative high school in Logan for the Cache County School District.
The Cache District has two regular high schools outside Logan in other cities.
Thomas Edison Charter School, which has campuses in North Logan and Nibley, is a enhance school for grades K-8 offering an academic stimulated curriculum.
There are also a number of small private schools in Logan.
In - Tech Collegiate High School is a enhance charter school at the Innovation Campus of Utah State University, just outside Logan.
Logan is the home of Utah State University, a Land-Grant University that is classified by Carnegie Foundation as a Doctoral/Research University Extensive, offering bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in a several fields.
Logan was home to the Brigham Young College, a college run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1878 to 1926.
Logan is home to the Utah Festival Opera, which hosts a number of performances through the year.
Cache Valley Center for the Arts offers a range of improve arts classes and hosts various "Gallery Walk" affairs throughout the year in which participating businesses in historic downtown Logan feature different art, music, and food.
The Summerfest Arts Faire, held annually at the Logan Tabernacle grounds on Father's Day Weekend, jubilates the arts through a fine art/fine craft festival with music, food and children's activities.
Utah State University hosts many creative and cultural affairs, including traveling art arcades, symphony performances, plays and enhance lectures.
Logan Library, established in 1916, makes more than 200,000 items available for inhabitants to borrow and also hosts hundreds of affairs each year for all ages.
Logan's Parks and Recreation department runs the Logan River Golf Course, the Logan/Cache County Fairgrounds, and the Logan Aquatic Center.
Logan Canyon has various hiking and camping areas, and its scenic First, Second, and Third Dams furnish prominent gathering spots for picnics and fishing.
The Willow Park Zoo is a small zoo in Logan's Willow Park, with a small compilation of wild animals including monkeys, coyotes, bobcats, bald eagles, and territory birds and ducks.
Logan is the home of two full-length golf courses, the Logan River Golf Course and the Logan Golf and Country Club.
Nearby, the town/city of Logan runs an aquatic center and a skate park.
Logan is home to The Herald Journal, a everyday newspaper, and the Cache Valley Daily, a news site directed by KVNU 610 AM / 102.1 FM and the Cache Valley Media Group.
Both news outlets cover the Logan and Cache Valley area.
Many Logan inhabitants also subscribe to the Salt Lake City-based Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, both of which cover Cache Valley happenings to some degree.
Northern Utah Media Group owns and operates over 150 websites covering the Cache Valley and Northern Utah area.Each website includes many years' worth of video archives of small-town miscellaneous improve affairs, government meetings, USU athletics, high school sports affairs, performances and news broadcasts. The Valley Channel is a small-town tv station which provides community-oriented programs, news talk shows, and coverage of small-town high school sporting affairs and Utah State University hockey.
For major tv network affiliates, Logan is considered part of the Salt Lake City media market.
Utah Public Radio (UPR) is a National Public Radio partner positioned on the Logan ground of Utah State University and a part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
It broadcasts in Logan at 89.5 FM and 91.5 FM.
The Cache Valley Media Group contains a several airways broadcasts, such as KVNU 610 AM / 102.1 FM with small-town news and talk programs, Utah State Aggies and Logan High School sports, 92.9 FM KBLQ with soft rock, 94.5 FM KVFX with Top 40, 95.9 FM KLZX with classic rock, 96.7 FM KKEX with country, 103.9 KGNT with oldies, and 1390 AM / 103.3 FM KLGN.
The Utah Statesman, a pupil-run journal based on the Utah State Campus covers the majority of ground news as well as the connections between USU and the community.
The city's biggest employer is Utah State University, with other primary employers including Icon Health & Fitness, Cache County School District, Logan Regional Hospital, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Gossner Foods, and Schreiber Foods. Utah State University doctoral land-grant college with high research activeness Utah Festival Opera established and headquartered in Logan Politic - It - headquartered in Logan Utah, Politic - It is a political website that predicts election outcomes using digital influence.
Highways US-89 and US-91 enter Logan from the southwest as a combined highway, and then separate in downtown Logan.
US-91 goes north into Idaho, and US-89 goes east into Logan Canyon, and thence to Bear Lake.
The Logan Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Travel Destination is one of the several urbane statistical areas in Utah not connected via an interstate highway (Interstate 15), and one of the several its size not connected to any interstate anywhere.
Logan is served by a small-town sales-tax-funded zero-fare bus fitness called the Cache Valley Transit District (CVTD), which incorporated the Logan Transit District (LTD) in 2007.
Currently, fitness comprises of 16 routes that serve Logan and the contiguous metros/cities of North Logan and River Heights.
However, Logan is inside ready driving distance or shuttle ride of Salt Lake City International Airport.
There are also two taxi companies, Cache Cab LLC and Logan Taxi.
Logan hosts the annual "Cache Valley Cruise-In", Utah's biggest automotive event, with a three-day exhibit of special cars and vehicles, concerts, and other activities.
Logan is also home to the annual "Small Satellite Conference", a week long conference visited by trade and academia from around the world, hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Utah State University. Each July Logan showcases small-town artwork, food, and performers at its annual Summerfest Arts Faire on the lawn of the historic Logan Tabernacle. CNN Money periodical ranked Logan third on its list of Best Places to Retire Young in 2007. In 2006 Forbes listed Logan 10th on its list of Best Small Places For Business & Careers. The Monday Report listed Logan as the most walkable improve in Utah in a 2009 study. In 2010 The Daily Beast ranked Logan the #1 town/city in America to be a kid on Christmas. Tom Perry, LDS Church apostle, graduate of Utah State Agricultural College (later Utah State University) "Logan Elected Officials".
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