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Logan, Oregon

unincorporated community in Oregon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ14709046 ↗
Source-derived summary

Logan is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It was named after politician and Civil War Major General John A. Logan. Its post office was established on June 13, 1884. Lafayette Hummiston(1840–1916) was its first postmaster. The office closed on October 12, 1903.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Logan, Oregon” as unincorporated community in Oregon. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Logan, Oregon and unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1840, 1916, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Logan, Oregon and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Logan, Oregon”, the useful work is to connect “unincorporated community in Oregon” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14709046. Authority coordinates are 45.343, -122.423. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884, 1840, 1916 and 1903.

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This entry incorporates text from “Logan, Oregon” 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.