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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leechburgh. 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 Leechburgh.<1>

We found mention of Leechburgh as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Johnston County, North Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1854 and closed  in 1870.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leechburgh ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Leechburgh:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Johnston County ...

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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 Johnston County.

Abells 
AtfaLeachburg
 Lizzie Cotton Mills
BannerLowell
BeasleyLunar
Beulah 
BismarckMicaville
BlackmanMingo
 Monk
Caudills 
CreachvillePenny
 Perlina
EasonsPolenta
ElevationPoleta
EzraPou
 Pratt's
Gift 
GlenmoreRhodesvilie
GlenwoodRome
  
Holt's MillSaint Charles
HoneycuttSandy Level
 Selma Cotton Mills
ItascaStephenson
Itiner 
 Wilsons Mill
Jerome 
JoynerYouth

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/