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Welcome to Leaksville ...

Leaksville is located in Page County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Leaksville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857.

Leaksville is 860 feet [262 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Leaksville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Leaksville: 540 & 826<3>

Communities Also Named Leaksville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Leaksville - it's located in North Carolina.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Leaksville.

Communities near Leaksville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Leaksville.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Leaksville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Leaksville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Leaksville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Leaksville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Leaksville. See our Newspapers Page for Leaksville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Leaksville ...

Looking for more information about Leaksville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Leaksville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Leaksville.

Adding Leaksville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Leaksville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Leaksville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Leaksville post office opened in 1857. The Leaksville post office closed in 1905.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Leaksville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Page, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Leaksville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 540 code has been Overlayed with the 826 area code. New phone numbers in the Leaksville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 540 or 826. As a result, placing a call in the Leaksville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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