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Leslie, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leslie-De Soto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31764. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle. 344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Leslie within Sumter County

Population over time

3 figures

Leslie fell from 455 to 344 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000455
2010409-46 (-10%)
2020344-65 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Leslie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 785 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning103
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SUMTER-011
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-SUMTER-016
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use18 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SUMTER-008
24 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SUMTER-016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2007Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,000The Sumter County Emergency Management Director reported that thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several trees and power lines. In addition, the roof was blown off a porch of one home in the area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLeslie$5,000The Sumter County 911 Center reported that many trees were blown down in the far southeast part of the county between Leslie and areas south of Cobb.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLeslie$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked over Pecan trees and swept down tree limbs, which damaged at least three cars.
March 2018HailLeslie$2,000The Sumter County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail in Leslie.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLeslie$2,000The Sumter county Sheriff reported a tin roof was blown off a building.
January 1999HailLeslie-The sheriff's office reported nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Sumter County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
DeSoto1.3 miles9
Parkers (historical)2.0 miles9
Lamar4.3 miles8
Huntington4.3 miles8
Cobb5.2 miles8
Gatewood6.6 miles8
Flintside7.0 miles8
Corinth (historical)7.4 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LeslieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2101248The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 316768. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.