Leasburg, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65535. The Survey maps it on the Leasburg quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.
On record in Leasburg
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 1 record
- Scotia Iron Furnace Stacklisted 1969
Population over time
2 figuresLeasburg fell from 338 to 326 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 338 | |
| 2020 | 326 | -12 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Leasburg quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Leasburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,127 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 33 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 144800-02811-06202016-1354 |
| 1 May 1992 | Smoking | 23 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Leasburg: 28 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grady Brothers Prospect | Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Bank Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Knight Prospect | Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Mullen Mine | Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Copper | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| J. Moore Prospect | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Koehn Prospect | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Iron | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leasburg in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Leasburg | $5,000 | A tornado touched down briefly producing wind damage to trees in the Huzzah State Forest. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Leasburg | $1,000 | Three to four inches of rain fell over a short amount of time on ground that was already saturated from previous rains. The sheriff's department reported that Highway E at Scotia had water over the bridge that crosses Huzzah Creek. The flooding lingered for several hours. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leasburg | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leasburg | - | Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree over onto Saranac Springs Road. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leasburg | - | Several large trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down in Leasburg and Bourbon. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Leasburg | - | The tornado initially touched down 1.5 miles south of Leasburg, near Highway MM where large tree branches were blown down. The tornado moved east and crossed Davis Valley Road. Numerous large tree limbs and a few large trees were blown down on a farmstead. The tornado then moved over Highway H and hit a second farmstead. Two homes sustained varying degrees of damage while two machine sheds were severely damaged. The width of the damage track at this location was 80 yards. The damage over this area was rated F1 in intensity. The tornado continued to move east along Possum Hollow Road. Five homes along the road sustained varying degrees of roof, siding and window damage. The damage width varied between 50 to 75 yards while damage intensity was rated F1. From this point the tornado traveled mainly over forested and farmland areas as it crossed Highway N over eastern Crawford County. Several large and small trees were either damaged or destroyed. The tornado lifted and dissipated approximately half a mile west of the Crawford-Washington County line, half a mile north of Highway N. No injuries or deaths were reported. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Leasburg | - | The tornado touched down 1.5 miles west of Leasburg and rapidly moved east over Leasburg. It caused minor roof and siding damage to several homes. The damage path width varied from 40 to 80 yards with the damage intensity rated F0. The tornado lifted and dissipated 1.5 miles east of Leasburg. No injuries or deaths were reported. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Leasburg | - | The Sheriff Department reported nickel size hail. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Leasburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Leasburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Leasburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leasburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leasburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leasburg | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coffeyton | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Avery (historical) | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Crossroads | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Hofflins | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| Delhi | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Bourbon | 5.1 miles | 20 | |
| Cuba | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| Scotia | 6.2 miles | 21 |
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 Leasburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2493313 | The 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 750670. 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.







