Logan Township, Auglaize County

How Logan Township, Auglaize County began

Logan Township was formed in 1848 out of territory previously split between Moulton and Amanda townships in Allen County, and named for Captain Logan, a Shawnee warrior who scouted for the Americans in the War of 1812. It sits on the Auglaize River in northwestern Auglaize County and includes the village of Buckland. The land was the heart of the Shawnee reservation established after the treaties of the 1810s, and the War of 1812 supply depot Fort Amanda stood on the river within the township. It is now largely farmland along the Auglaize.

Incorporated 1848.

Where the name comes from

The township was named for Captain Logan (Spemica Lawba), a Shawnee war leader who scouted for General William Henry Harrison's army in the War of 1812; it is the only Logan Township in Ohio.

Before the town

Neighboring Wapakoneta was the seat of a ten-mile-square Shawnee reservation set off by the Treaty of the Maumee Rapids (1817) and the Treaty of St. Marys (1818). The Shawnee principal chief Black Hoof (Catahecassa), who had signed the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, led most of Ohio's remaining Shawnee to settle at Wapakoneta on the Auglaize River, where the government helped establish a farming settlement with several hundred acres in crops, a sawmill and a gristmill. The village of Buckland, in the township's south, began as White Feather's Town (Na-Wa-Ba-She-Ka), a Shawnee village that stood on both banks of the Auglaize River; the settlement's name was not changed to Buckland until 1891. An 1831 treaty (implementing the Indian Removal Act of 1830) forced the sale of the Wapakoneta reservation, and the Shawnee removed to Kansas in 1832; Black Hoof himself had died at Wapakoneta in 1831, before his people left. Fort Amanda, a War of 1812 U.S. Army supply depot on the Auglaize River within the township, was built in the fall of 1812 by Kentucky troops under Lt. Col. Robert Pogue (who named it for his young daughter) and enlarged in 1813; it lay along the military road connecting the forts from Piqua north to Fort Meigs, in territory the Shawnee still held at the time.

Nations recorded here: Shawnee, Miami.

• Fort Amanda (other) — on the Auglaize River, Logan Township, 1812-1813 (War of 1812) (en.wikipedia.org)
• White Feather's Town (village) — site of present-day Buckland, on both banks of the Auglaize River, to 1832 (en.wikipedia.org)
• Wapaghonetta (Wapakoneta) reservation and council house (treaty) — Wapakoneta, next to Logan Township, 1817/1818-1832 (hmdb.org)

Timeline

1. 1812 — Kentucky troops under Lt. Col. Robert Pogue build Fort Amanda on the Auglaize River as a War of 1812 supply depot, naming it for Pogue's daughter Hannah Amanda.
2. 1817-1818 — The Treaty of the Maumee Rapids and the Treaty of St. Marys set off a Shawnee reservation centered on Wapakoneta.
3. 1831-1832 — Black Hoof dies at Wapakoneta in 1831; the Wapakoneta reservation is ceded that year, and the Shawnee are removed west to Kansas in 1832.
4. 1833 — Wapakoneta is platted following the Shawnee removal.
5. 1848 — Logan Township is organized and Wapakoneta becomes the seat of the newly created Auglaize County.
6. 1872 — Buckland (as White Feather) is platted in southern Logan Township.
7. 1891 — White Feather village is renamed Buckland, honoring a promoter of the railroad through the town.
8. 1915 — A granite monument is erected at the Fort Amanda site; the fort itself no longer stands.

Stories

Black Hoof's farm at Wapakoneta

After signing the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, the Shawnee chief Black Hoof concluded that the only way for his people to survive in Ohio was to adopt farming rather than keep fighting American settlement. He led most of the remaining Ohio Shawnee to Wapakoneta on the Auglaize River, where the federal government sent the Quaker William Kirk to help establish a model farm. Within a few years the settlement had more than 500 acres under cultivation along with a sawmill and gristmill under construction, an experiment in coexistence that held for over three decades. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 ended it: an 1831 treaty forced the sale of the reservation, and in 1832 the Shawnee were removed to Kansas. Black Hoof, by then around a hundred years old, did not live to see the removal: he died at Wapakoneta in 1831, as the reservation experiment he had built was ending.

Fort Amanda's namesake

In the fall of 1812, Lt. Col. Robert Pogue led Kentucky troops up the Auglaize River to build a supply depot for General William Henry Harrison's army, part of a chain of forts running north from Piqua to Fort Meigs. Pogue named the post for his daughter, Hannah Amanda. Four two-story buildings stood inside it; Ohio militia under Capt. Daniel Hosbrook nearly doubled its size the following spring. No trace of the fort survives today, but a granite monument raised in 1915 and a small cemetery mark the site on the riverbank, now a park managed by the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District.

Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · hmdb.org · amyjohnsoncrow.com · ohiohistory.org · en.wikipedia.org · archive.org

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Mostly private wells The water here

• Wapakoneta City61% of residentsTeays River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)
• Spencerville Village20% of residentsGroundwater wells (3 wells)
• Lima City12% of residentsAuglaize River and Ottawa River, stored in city upground reservoirs
• Cridersville Village7% of residentsGroundwater wells (4 wells)
• Brightstar Lima MHP1% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
• Lakeside Estates Mobile Home Park0% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)

Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)

Spills reported since 2021 (2)

Who holds office

Roster as of 2026-09-18: county board of elections.

Money issues on the ballot since 2020: 1 of 1 passed.

Ballot issues

Elections for office

Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.

Auditor of State record

• No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
• Basic Audit, 2023 to 2024, released 2025-08-26

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