THE LOGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Clayey High Lime Till Plains setting.
Logan County has 458.5 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Logan County: Clayey High Lime Till Plains, Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Mad River Interlobate Area.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Logan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains57.6%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains24.2%
- Mad River Interlobate Area18.2%
Finding your parcel within Logan County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Logan County, including Rushcreek, Jefferson, Bokescreek. 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 8.34 square miles of water within Logan County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Logan County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Logan County has 36.9 times the land area of nearby Lake township (12.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Auglaize County, Champaign County, Hardin County, Shelby County, Union County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

