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Log Lane Village, Colorado

town in Morgan County, Colorado, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2275136 ↗
Source-derived summary

Log Lane Village is a statutory town in Morgan County, Colorado, United States. The population was 913 at the 2020 census.

Log Lane Village was named from the presence of log houses in the town.

History

Prior to settlement, the area around Log Lane Village was the traditional territory of the Arapaho and Cheyenne Native Americans. Settlement in the area began in the 19th century. The area around Log Lane Village and the adjacent Fort Morgan began to see greater growth following the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. The town itself was established in 1956. Today it serves largely as a suburb for the larger Fort Morgan.

Geography

Log Lane Village is located in central Morgan County 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Fort Morgan, the county seat. The town is bordered to the northeast by the South Platte River and by Colorado State Highway 144 to the southwest.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Log Lane Village, Colorado” as town in Morgan County, Colorado, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lane, Village and Colorado.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lane, Village and Colorado providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Log Lane Village, Colorado”, the useful work is to connect “town in Morgan County, Colorado, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2275136. Authority coordinates are 40.271, -103.827. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1956.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Log Lane Village, Colorado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.