Logan is a city in Logan County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 1,438 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Logan County.

What is now Logan was initially called “Islands of the Guyandot” by explorers who identified the site in the 1780s. In 1827, a town was laid out at the site to help as a county chair for Logan County, which had been traditional in 1824. The city was initially known as “Lawsonsville” after Anthony Lawson, an to the fore merchant, but was reduced to “Lawnsville.” In the to the lead 1850s, Thomas Dunn English, a poet and difficult congressman, led efforts to modernize the town. When the town incorporated in 1853, it was renamed “Aracoma” after the Shawnee chief Cornstalk’s daughter, who had been killed by settlers in the area in 1780. The city was renamed “Logan” in 1907 after the Mingo leader, Chief Logan.

Logan grew all the time during the late 19th and into the future 20th centuries as a hub of the regional coal industry. At its culmination in 1940, the city had a population of higher than 5,000, and was home to numerous businesses, including furniture stores, hotels, banks, and car dealerships. Logan began to subside following World War II, due in large allowance to the increased mechanization of the coal industry.

The Chafin House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Logan was home to the Logan Indians, a youth league baseball team, from 1937 to 1942.