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Do you know of Leesville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leesville. 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 Leesville.

Our sources for Leesville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Leesville other than they indicate that Leesville would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1896.

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 Leesville ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Leesville.

Within Michigan, the name Leesville is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Colusa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Leesville [Colusa County].
    • Connecticut
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Leesville [Middlesex County].
    • Illinois
      • Kankakee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Leesville [Kankakee County].
    • Indiana
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Leesville [Lawrence County].
    • Louisiana
      • Vernon Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Leesville [Vernon Parish].
    • Missouri
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Leesville [Henry County].
    • New Jersey
      • Ocean County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Leesville [Ocean County].
    • New York
      • Schoharie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Leesville [Schoharie County].
    • North Carolina
      • Robeson 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 North Carolina community of Leesville [Robeson County].
      • Wake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Leesville [Wake County].
    • Ohio
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Leesville [Carroll County].
      • Crawford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Leesville [Crawford County].
    • South Carolina
      • Lexington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Leesville [Lexington County].
    • Texas
      • Gonzales County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Leesville [Gonzales County].
    • Virginia
      • Campbell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Leesville [Campbell County].
      • Suffolk City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Leesville [Suffolk City].
      • Westmoreland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Leesville [Westmoreland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leesville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Leesville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Wayne 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 Wayne County.

AshMason
 Maybury
Bay City JunctionMcKinneys
Beaufait StationMeyers Junction
BeckMiddlebelt
BedfordMill
BeldenMilwaukee Junction
Bell BranchMorton
Belt Line JunctionMount Elliott
BennettMount Olivet
Birch Hill Park 
BirrellNallville
BorodinoNankin Mills
BoulevardNankin
BrownstownNavarre
 Newburg
Canton StationNorris
ChandlerNorth Detroit
ClaireviewNorth End
ClairviewNortheast
College ParkNortheastern
Connors GroveNorthwestern
Coolidge 
Cottage GroveOakwood Junction
Curtis SidingOakwood Park
 Oakwood
Dearborn JunctionOld Redford
Dearbornville 
DearoadPark Grove
DehocoPark Plaza
Delta YardPenford
 Penobscot
East MelvindalePerrinsville
Eastland CenterPike's Peak
EcorcePlank Road
Ecorse JunctionPlymouth Junction
EdisonPreston
Elmwood 
EurekaRedford Heights
 Redford Junction
FenkellRosedale Gardens
FishersRougemere
Five Points 
Ford JunctionSaint Clair Heights
FordSalt Wells
FordhavenSand Hill
Forest LawnSchaeffer
Fort DearbornSecords
Fort ShelbySeven Oaks
Fox CreekSherwood Gardens
FullertonSkandia
 Slocum Junction
Garden City NorthSouthern Junction
GarfieldStone Island
Grand Circus ParkStony Island
Grand RiverStrongs Siding
Grandale GardensSumpter
Gratiot 
GreenfieldTaylor Park
 Teleford
Hand StationTelreka
HarperTonquish
Hickory IslandTown Line
HowlettTrenton Junction
HuronTrolley
 Turkey
Jefferson 
JoyfieldVan Pelham
  
KenwoodWallaceville
KerchevalWaterford
 Wayne Junction
Lake Shore JunctionWest Detroit
LeGraphWest End
LinwoodWestend
LivernoisWhitewood
LurmetWillow Gardens
 Woodmere
Maple 
MarkYew

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

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









 

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