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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.

Leasburg within Crawford County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Leasburg 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.

YearPeople Change
2010338
2020326-12 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

79 since 1992

Regional 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1999Arson/incendiarism33 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation144800-02811-06202016-1354
1 May 1992Smoking23 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1998Debris and open burning22 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grady Brothers ProspectCopper, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Copper Bank MineCopperPast Producer
Knight ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Mullen MineSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
J. Moore ProspectIronPast Producer
Koehn ProspectIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1993Tornado (F0)Leasburg$5,000A tornado touched down briefly producing wind damage to trees in the Huzzah State Forest.
September 2007Flash FloodLeasburg$1,000Three 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 2022Thunderstorm WindLeasburg-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindLeasburg-Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree over onto Saranac Springs Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindLeasburg-Several large trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down in Leasburg and Bourbon.
September 2006Tornado (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 2006Tornado (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 2003HailLeasburg-The Sheriff Department reported nickel size hail.
March 2025HailLeasburg-no account filed
April 2011HailLeasburg-no account filed
September 2006HailLeasburg-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLeasburg-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLeasburg-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLeasburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Coffeyton2.1 miles19
Avery (historical)2.8 miles19
Crossroads3.0 miles21
Hofflins3.4 miles19
Delhi3.7 miles18
Bourbon5.1 miles20
Cuba6.0 miles19
Scotia6.2 miles21

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 LeasburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2493313The 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.