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The land in what became Logan County had been settled during the 1820s and 1830s by the Creek and Seminole tribes after the forced Indian Removal by the federal government from their traditional historic territories in the American Southeast. These tribes supported the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, in part based on the CSA promise of an American Indian state if they won. The United States required the tribes that supported the Confederacy to make new Reconstruction Treaties in 1866.
As part of the treaties, the US reduced the lands of these tribes, designating certain areas as Unassigned Lands. This 2 million-acre area was reserved for years after the war as potential reservation lands for the Plains tribes, who were mostly settled in other areas. Congress passed a law in 1889, after the Indian Wars, to open the land to non-Indian settlement under terms of the 1862 Homestead Act.[5] The land rush (or run) took place on April 22, 1889, whereby people rushed to establish homestead plots.
The county was named on August 5, 1890 for U. S. Senator, John A. Logan, of Illinois.
Adjacent Counties
Cities, Towns & Communities
- Cashion
- Cedar Valley
- Cimarron City
- Coyle
- Crescent
- Guthrie (County Seat)
- Langston
- Marshall
- Meridian
- Mulhall
- Orlando
- Seward
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