Leesburg Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Leesburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Leesburg, Indiana. The district encompasses 21 contributing buildings, and one contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential section of Leesburg.”
Wikipedia article Leesburg Historic District (Leesburg, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Kosciusko County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 100 block of E. and W. Van Buren St., Leesburg, 46538
When was it listed? May 1993
Category. district
Township. Plain township
National Register reference number. 93000465 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leesburg Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	G. and G. Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Leesburg Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kosciusko County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leesburg, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$50,000	A tractor semi-trailer was blown over and damaged. Downed trees blocked several roads.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$5,000	Multiple trees down in Leesburg.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$5,000	Power lines were blown down.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$2,000	Tree down on power line at 600 N and SR 15.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$2,000	Local media reported a grain bin was blown down west of Leesburg.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$1,000	A large tree was toppled in Leesburg.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	$1,000	The media reports a large tree down.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	The public reported several large tree limbs down in the town of Leesburg.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	Local media shared a picture of a large tree branch down across State Route 15, just south of Leesburg. Some signs of rot were visible.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	An off duty NWS employee reported a healthy two foot diameter tree limb was blown down onto a power line.
November 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	An off duty NWS employee reported 4 end segments of a center pivot were flipped.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	Social media pages indicated that several trees and tree limbs were blown down in the town of Leesburg.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	An off duty NWS employee found a large pine tree uprooted at a residence northeast of Leesburg.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	Large trees downed.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	A two foot (2') diameter tree down across State Road 15, just south of Leesburg.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	Top 8 feet of a roughly 20 foot high, 14 inch diameter tree was broke off, falling into a private yard.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Leesburg	-	2.05 inches of rain reported in 1 hour.
March 2003	Hail	Leesburg	-	Dime size hail was reported between Leesburg and North Webster, with the storm then producing nickel size hail in the town of North Webster.
May 2003	Hail	Leesburg	-	Off duty NWS employees in the same area reported hail the size of quarters covering the ground.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	Off duty NWS employee reported trees down east of Leesburg.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Leesburg	-	Trees were uprooted or snapped off.
July 2015	Hail	Leesburg	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Leesburg	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Leesburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kosciusko County

Map coverage status

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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Pound Store	3.4 miles	1992
Hall Farm	3.7 miles	1992
East Fort Wayne Street Historic District	6.3 miles	1993
Kosciusko County Jail	6.4 miles	1978
Warsaw Courthouse Square Historic District	6.4 miles	1982
Warsaw Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)	6.5 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000465 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kosciusko County	All 17 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.