Logan from: Utah Place Names LOGAN* (Cache County) is at the mouth of Logan Canyon on US-89,91. The city has several name sources. The most prominent is that Ephraim Logan, a mountain man with Ashley's group, and a member of Jedediah Smith's party, lost his life in the 1820s along the river. The settlement was later named for the river. Peter Maughan located the site in the spring of 1859 and it was originally known as Logans Fort*. Another claim is that the settlement was named for a friendly Indian chief named Logan. There is also a letter on file (see Utah State Historical Society. Unpublished Archives on Geographic Names) from a Mrs. Roberts stating that the town was named for her father's old ox because her father asked Apostle Hyde to do so, and he publicly consented, An ox called Logan tough with fame Came with the Reeses here And after it the town was named As items now appear. See Logan River below. >S26,27,33,34, T12N, R1E, SLM; 4,545' (1,382m). Bibliography: Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 17. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Dunham, Dick and Vivian Dunham. Flaming Gorge Country, The Story of Daggett County, Utah. Denver: Eastwood Printing and Publishing Co., 1977. Ricks, Joel Edward and E.L. Cooley, eds. The History of a Valley. Cache Valley Centennial Commisssion, Logan, UT: Deseret News Publishing Co., 1956. Steel, William Gladstone. "A Story of Names." Typescript. Washington, DC: United States Board on Geographic Names Library, 1956. United States, Board on Geographic Names, Writers' Program. Origins of Utah Place Names. 3d ed. Comp. and written by Utah Writers Project, Work Projects Administration. Sponsored and published by Utah State Department of Public Instruction. Salt Lake City, 1940. Utah, a Guide to the State. Work Projects Administration. Comp. by Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, Salt Lake County Commission. New York: Hastings House, 1941. Utah State Historical Society. Unpublished Archives on Geographic Names. LOGAN RIVER (Cache County) originates in Idaho and drains south to eventually enter the Little Bear River west of Logan*. The most reliable name source is that the river was named for mountain man/trapper Ephraim Logan, whose grave rests in Logan Canyon. Earlier names for the river were Logans Fork, Maughans Fork, and Little Bear. Bibliography: Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of Utah. United States Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 166. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. Herald Journal. Logan, UT. (7 Jan. 1977). Layton, Stanford J. "Fort Rawlins, Utah: A Question of Mission and Means." Utah Historical Quarterly 42 (Winter 1974): 68-83. Simmonds, A. J. On the Big Range: A Centennial History of Cornish and Trenton, Cache County, Utah. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1970. Utah, A Guide to the State. Work Projects Administration. Comp. by Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, Salt Lake County Commission. New York: Hastings House, 1941. EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS... 1. An asterisk (*) following a place name indicates past or present inhabitation. 2. When a series of letters and numbers are present towards the end of an entry after the ">" symbol, the first group indicates section/township/range as closely as can be pinpointed (i.e., S12,T3S,R4W,SLM, or USM). A section equals approximately one square mile, reflecting U.S. Geological Survey topographic map sections. Because Utah is not completely mapped, some entries are incomplete. In this case, whatever information is available will be provided. The second group, when present, is altitude in feet followed by meters in parentheses [i.e., 6,000' (1,829m)]. Altitude is not included with canyons or deserts with varying altitudes. _____________________________________________________________________ SOURCE... Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah. University of Utah Press, 1990. AUTHOR... Van Cott, John W. USE RESTRICTIONS... The contents of this article may be repurposed for non-commercial, non-profit, educational use. _____________________________________________________________________ Distributed by the Utah Education Network eMedia service: http://www.uen.org/emedia Original digital conversion by UCME: Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia project: http://www.uen.org/ucme File ID = t_003528 A softbound copy of the original book may be purchased online from the University of Utah Page 1 Press at: http://www.uofupress.com Page 2.