THE LOGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Illinois/Indiana Prairies setting.
Logan County has 618.1 square miles of land in Illinois. The mapped landscape region in Logan County is Illinois/Indiana Prairies.
Glaciated plains historically supported tallgrass prairie mixed with oak and hickory woodland. Dark prairie soils and broad farming landscapes distinguish much of the Central Corn Belt.
Regional context: Central Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Logan County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Logan County, including Mount Pulaski, Elkhart, Eminence. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Logan County by land and water
The Census records 0.87 square miles of water within Logan County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Logan County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Logan County has 97.4 times the land area of nearby Lincoln city (6.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets De Witt County, Macon County, Mason County, McLean County, Menard County, Sangamon County, Tazewell County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

