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.
Population over time
2 figuresLeesburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,314 | |
| 2020 | 1,273 | -41 (-3%) |
Then and now
1917 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1917 USGS Sabina quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Sabina quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
1 since 2006The 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 440 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Entyloma compositarum Farl. | 1894 | F. L. Stevens | Highland Falls. |
![]() | Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899 | 1922 | Cooke, William Bridge | Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary) |
![]() | Phyllachora puncta (Cooke) Cooke | 1939 | Cooke, William Bridge | Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary) |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1880 | not recorded | Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America |
![]() | Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829) | 1881 | S.M. Taggert | Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America |
![]() | Andropogon gerardi Vitman | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Cinna arundinacea L. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Panel Creek |
![]() | Diarrhena americana P.Beauv. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Point Creek |
![]() | Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray | 1910 | Hopkins, 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 milesThe 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.
Storms nearby
23 since 1997The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Hail | Leesburg | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $12,000 | Several trees and wires were downed. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Leesburg | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $5,000 | Numerous trees were knocked down. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed. One tree was blown on to State Route 28 near Leesburg. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $4,000 | Widespread large tree limbs were downed across the northern part of the county. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $3,000 | A few trees were downed in Leesburg. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $3,000 | A metal awning was blown off a house. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Leesburg | $3,000 | Significant tree damage was also reported across the area. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $3,000 | Numerous trees and limbs were downed north of Leesburg along US Route 62. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Leesburg | $3,000 | Power lines were also downed between Leesburg and Greenfield. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $3,000 | A few trees knocked down |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $1,000 | A large tree was downed on W Main Street. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Leesburg | $1,000 | Deep high water impassible for vehicles was reported over Underground Road due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Leesburg | $1,000 | Water was rushing over roads at Highway 62 and Fairfield Road due to heavy rainfall. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg | $1,000 | A tree was downed on Route 28 due to thunderstorm winds. |
| December 2013 | Flash Flood | Leesburg | $1,000 | Highway 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 2025 | Hail | Leesburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Leesburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Leesburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Leesburg | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Leesburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Station | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Highland | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| East Monroe | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bridges | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Careytown | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Samantha | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Gist Settlement | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Fallsville (historical) | 5.5 miles | 11 |
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 Leesburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1023486 | 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 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.























