Lake Logan State Park in southeastern Ohio centers on a four hundred-acre reservoir created in 1955 by damming Clear Fork Creek in the Hocking Valley near Logan. Its landscape reflects both human and natural change: the area was inhabited by the Wyandot, Logan was founded in 1816 by Governor Thomas Worthington and named for Chief Logan of the Mingo, and nineteenth-century ironmaking heavily altered the region before forests returned after the industry declined. The park now preserves that second-growth woodland on Ohio’s Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau and remains an important recreation area for boating, fishing, swimming, birding, and other seasonal outdoor activities.