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Leesburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45135. It stands on Middle Fork Lees Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle. 1,273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Leesburg within Highland County

Population over time

2 figures

Leesburg fell from 1,314 to 1,273 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. 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
20101,314
20201,273-41 (-3%)

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leesburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Leesburg, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 nearby

1 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Leesburg between 2006 and 2006, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning1

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
2 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 440 shown

Museums hold 440 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leesburg between 1880 and 1975: 268 Animalia, 141 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brown, H P, C. Triplehorn, Cavender, Horvath & Smith and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Entyloma compositarum Farl.Entyloma compositarum Farl.1894F. L. StevensHighland Falls.
Specimen of Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 18991922Cooke, William BridgeSeven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
Specimen of Phyllachora puncta (Cooke) CookePhyllachora puncta (Cooke) Cooke1939Cooke, William BridgeSeven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1880not recordedLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Elimia semicarinata, not of this specimenElimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1881S.M. TaggertLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Brachyelytrum erectum, not of this specimenBrachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cardamine pensylvanica, not of this specimenCardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cinna arundinacea, not of this specimenCinna arundinacea L.1910Hopkins, L.S.Panel Creek
A photograph of the species Diarrhena americana, not of this specimenDiarrhena americana P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Point Creek
A photograph of the species Digitaria sanguinalis, not of this specimenDigitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Dryopteris marginalis, not of this specimenDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek, in Paint Creek Gorge

All 440 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leesburg: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Haven PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Haven PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Highland County

Storms nearby

23 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Leesburg in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 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
June 2006HailLeesburg$15,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$12,000Several trees and wires were downed.
April 2002HailLeesburg$10,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$5,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$5,000Several trees and power lines were downed. One tree was blown on to State Route 28 near Leesburg.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$4,000Widespread large tree limbs were downed across the northern part of the county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$3,000A few trees were downed in Leesburg.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$3,000A metal awning was blown off a house.
June 2015HailLeesburg$3,000Significant tree damage was also reported across the area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$3,000Numerous trees and limbs were downed north of Leesburg along US Route 62.
May 2009HailLeesburg$3,000Power lines were also downed between Leesburg and Greenfield.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$3,000A few trees knocked down
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$2,000Large tree limbs were downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$1,000A large tree was downed on W Main Street.
July 2013Flash FloodLeesburg$1,000Deep high water impassible for vehicles was reported over Underground Road due to heavy rainfall.
July 2013Flash FloodLeesburg$1,000Water was rushing over roads at Highway 62 and Fairfield Road due to heavy rainfall.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindLeesburg$1,000A tree was downed on Route 28 due to thunderstorm winds.
December 2013Flash FloodLeesburg$1,000Highway 134 at the Clinton and Highland County line was impassible northbound and nearly impassible southbound due to high water caused by heavy rainfall. In addition, State Route 72 had high water across it near Leesburg.
May 2025HailLeesburg-no account filed
May 2011HailLeesburg-no account filed
April 2010HailLeesburg-no account filed
May 2003HailLeesburg-no account filed
March 1997HailLeesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Highland Station2.2 miles12
Highland2.4 miles12
East Monroe3.0 miles13
Bridges3.2 miles12
Careytown4.7 miles11
Samantha4.7 miles12
Gist Settlement5.4 miles11
Fallsville (historical)5.5 miles11

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 LeesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023486The 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 1064980. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.