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Logan County, West Virginia
Logan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 36,743.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/54/54045.html )〕 Its county seat is Logan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1824 from parts of Giles, Tazewell, Cabell, and Kanawha counties.〔http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvcounties.html〕 It is named for Chief Logan, famous Native American chief of the Mingo tribe.
Logan County comprises the Logan, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY Combined Statistical Area.
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 of waste and water in a 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.
==Geography==
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.4%) is water.
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