Built in 1922 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“Leesburg High School, also known as Lee County High School, is a historic high school in Leesburg, Georgia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2006.”
Wikipedia article Leesburg High School (Leesburg, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1922, Colonial Revival architecture, by Dennis & Dennis.
National Register reference number.05001595- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
256 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Leesburg High School
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 707 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 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 burning
158
Arson/incendiarism
27
Equipment and vehicle use
23
Misuse of fire by a minor
22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Natural
6
Smoking
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Leesburg High School: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Leesburg, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado.
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.
A tornado touched down near the Terrell-Lee county line on State Highway 32. Fifteen structures were damaged. A mobile home and frame home were destroyed. One woman was trapped in the bathroom of her home but was not injured. Numerous trees and power lines were down. Nearly 1,000 homes lost power.
Trees were blown down on Canal Street and power lines were blown down on Walnut Street at the intersection of Callaway Street. Several hundred power outages were also reported in the area.
A brief tornado touchdown was confirmed on the north and east side of Leesburg. People reported seeing debris circulating in the air with minor damage to light poles, trees, and outbuildings. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 897 issues,
4,762 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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