Do you know of Leesburg (aka 'Leesburgh') ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leesburg. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Leesburg.
Our sources for Leesburg (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Leesburg other than they indicate that Leesburg would be found somewhere in Saint Joseph County, Michigan.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Leesburg ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Leesburg.
Within Michigan, the name Leesburg is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Leesburg [Cherokee County].
- Florida
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Leesburg [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Lemhi County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Leesburg [Lemhi County].
- Illinois
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Leesburg [Fulton County].
- Indiana
- Allen County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Leesburg [Allen County].
- Kosciusko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Leesburg [Kosciusko County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Leesburg [Harrison County].
- Louisiana
- Iberia Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Leesburg [Iberia Parish].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Leesburg [Rankin County].
- Washington County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Leesburg [Washington County].
- New Jersey
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Leesburg [Cumberland County].
- Ohio
- Highland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Leesburg [Highland County].
- Pennsylvania
- Cumberland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Leesburg [Cumberland County].
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Leesburg [Mercer County].
- South Carolina
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Leesburg [Richland County].
- Tennessee
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Leesburg [Washington County].
- Texas
- Camp County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Leesburg [Camp County].
- Virginia
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Leesburg [Loudoun County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leesburg ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Leesburg:
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Leesburg - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Saint Joseph County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Saint Joseph County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Leesburg could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |