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Leesville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Nixon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78122. It stands on Talley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leesville quadrangle. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Leesville within Gonzales County

On record in Leesville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Leesville between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,066 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID NIXON
15 July 2009Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEESIVE HWY80
9 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 366
2 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEESIVILLE
11 March 2006Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE HWY 80
24 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leesville in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2007Thunderstorm WindLeesville$80,000The bow-shaped line along the Hays-Guadalupe-Wilson Counties accelerated as it crossed into Caldwell and Gonzales Counties near 12:30 am CST. The storms were now producing widespread wind gusts of 60 to 70 knots, with spotty higher gusts approaching 80 knots. Again, most of the damage was in the form of trees blown down, with some damages to roofs of homes.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLeesville$1,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down large tree limbs along FM 1682.
November 2025HailLeesville-A thunderstorm produced hail from pea to nickel size in Leesville.
April 2016HailLeesville-A thunderstorm produced two inch hail that broke windows on cars and houses in Leesville.
July 2007Flash FloodLeesville-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in western Gonzales County, closing FM1117 due to flash flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodLeesville-A cluster of thunderstorms stretching from near Pearsall in Frio County across southern Bexar County and northern Atascosa County, through Seguin and Stockdale to Gonzales produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals and spotty flash flooding problems. Highest rain amounts in Gonzales County were 4 inches near Leesville. US80 was closed south of Belmont, along with FM1117.
July 2007Flash FloodLeesville-A general rainfall of 2 to 3 inches was reported in western Gonzales County, with up to 5 inches near Leesville. US80 and FM466 were closed.
July 2007Flash FloodLeesville-Scattered storms in Gonzales and Wilson Counties dropped from 2 to 3 inches of rain, with up to 5 inches near Leesville. FM108 and FM466 were closed in Gonzales County due to flash flooding.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindLeesville-Trees were blown down by severe winds.
March 2009HailLeesville-no account filed
January 1999HailLeesville-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Leesville-no account filed
January 1999HailLeesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gonzales 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
Dewville4.0 miles12
Bebe5.7 miles10
Schoolland6.6 miles10
Monthalia8.4 miles11
Belmont8.7 miles16
Nixon9.7 miles13
Wrightsboro9.8 miles10
Oak Forest10.6 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 LeesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6516481The 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 1339796. 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.

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.