Leesburg, Idaho

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Leesburglisted 1975 · 0.1 miles away

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.

• 1950 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Bighorn Crags quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Leesburg between 1992 and 2018, burning about 51 acres in total. 24 started naturally. None was 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Lemhi County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Leesburg: 18 occurrences, 13 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lemhi County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leesburg in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lemhi County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396779. 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.

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.