THE LOGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dissected Appalachian Plateau setting.
Logan County has 452.9 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Logan County is Dissected Appalachian Plateau.
A rugged, deeply cut plateau of sandstone, shale and related rocks supports extensive forest. High hills and low mountains distinguish this Appalachian landscape from smoother neighboring regions.
Regional context: Central Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Logan County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Logan County, including Mount Gay-Shamrock, Mallory, Holden. 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 1.81 square miles of water within Logan County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Logan County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Logan County has 1,258.1 times the land area of nearby Stollings CDP (0.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Boone County, Lincoln County, Mingo County, Wyoming County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

