Editing Logan County, West Virginia (section)

==History==
Logan County was formed in 1824 from parts of [[Giles County, Virginia|Giles]], [[Tazewell County, Virginia|Tazewell]], [[Cabell County, West Virginia|Cabell]], and [[Kanawha County, West Virginia|Kanawha]] counties, then part of the state of [[Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvcounties.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010923185022/http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvcounties.html |archive-date=September 23, 2001 |access-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> It is named for [[Chief Logan]], famous [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] chief of the [[Mingo]] tribe. Logan was one of fifty Virginia counties that became part of the new state of West Virginia in 1863, by an [[executive order]] of [[Abraham Lincoln]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], even though Logan County had voted for secession in the April 4, 1861, convention.

Within months of its admission to the Union, West Virginia's counties were divided into [[civil township]]s, with the intention of encouraging local government. This proved impractical in the heavily rural state, and in 1872 the townships were converted into [[minor civil division|magisterial districts]].<ref>Otis K. Rice & Stephen W. Brown, ''West Virginia: A History'', 2nd ed., University Press of Kentucky, Lexington (1993), p. 240.</ref> Logan County was divided into five districts: Chapmanville,{{efn-lr|Regularly spelled "Chapmansville" until the 1950s.}} Hardee, Logan, Magnolia, and Triadelphia. A sixth district, Lee, was formed in 1878 from portions of Hardy and Magnolia Districts. In 1895, [[Mingo County, West Virginia|Mingo County]] was formed from Hardee, Lee, and Magnolia Districts, along with portions of Chapmanville and Triadelphia Districts.<ref name="Census Bureau MCD">[[United States Census Bureau]], [[United States Census|U.S. Decennial Census]], Tables of Minor Civil Divisions in West Virginia, 1870–2010.</ref>

In the 1960s, Chapmanville District was discontinued, and two new districts, Guyan and Island Creek, formed from its territory, along with portions of Logan and Triadelphia Districts. The county was redistricted again in the 1980s, resulting in nine magisterial districts: Buffalo, Chapmanville, East, Guyan, Island Creek, Logan, Northwest, Triadelphia, and West. However, in the following decade these were consolidated into three districts: Central, Eastern, and Western.<ref name="Census Bureau MCD" />

In 1921 it was the location of the [[Battle of Blair Mountain]], one of the largest armed uprisings in U.S. history. More recently, the [[Buffalo Creek Flood]] of February 26, 1972, killed 125 people when a [[coal slurry dam]] burst under the pressure of heavy rains, releasing over {{convert|100,000,000|USgal|L}} of waste and water in a {{convert|30|ft|m|adj=on}} wave onto the valley below. The communities of Lorado and Lundale were destroyed and 14 other communities heavily damaged, including Saunders, Amherstdale, Crites, and Latrobe.