Logan

Logan covers 80 acres and the county records 151 parcels and 138 site addresses inside the boundary, on 145 distinct legal lots at a median of 6,251 square feet. Eleven named streets run 3.19 miles within it, among them Logan St, Custer St, Stafford St, Santiago St, Lincoln Ave and Washington Ave. The zoning layer gives 42.6 acres to Specific Development No. 84, with 6.4 acres of light industrial and 4 acres of heavy industrial, and the general plan carries 34.6 acres as urban neighborhood against 10.4 acres of industrial.

Chepa's Park sits inside the boundary at 0.4 acres with a recreation center, a basketball court, a picnic area, a playground and permanent restrooms. The Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center is inside the boundary on the city rail layer. Seven properties here sit on the city historic register, among them the Franke, Cummings and Oscar Smith Houses. Santa Ana Unified covers all of the boundary.

Logan is one of the earliest Mexican barrios and one of the oldest neighborhoods in Santa Ana. After William Spurgeon bought land out of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1869 and founded the town, the ground east of the tracks was laid out as Santa Ana East and meant to be a commercial quarter. It stayed largely empty and became housing instead. Mexican families began settling along Lincoln Street in the early 1900s, joined by Californios, members of the Acjachemen tribe and later arrivals from Mexico. In 1901 there were only three houses on Lincoln Street. The historian Mary Garcia traces the name to Congressman John A. Logan, who in 1871 wrote legislation providing federal land grants and subsidies for a transcontinental railroad.

The barrio built its own institutions. Residents who had been worshipping at St. Joseph's founded Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in 1922. Logan School opened in 1928 as a segregated school for Mexican children. By 1947 there were 210 homes in the barrio and 84 percent of them carried Spanish surnames. La Chiquita started early in the century as a grocery and tortilla factory and became a restaurant in 1950. More than a hundred men from these few blocks served in the Second World War, and a mural completed in the 2010s names 160 Mexican Americans from Logan who served in that war or in the conflicts after it.