Leesburg

Leesburg was first settled in 1857 by Evander McIver Lee. The city was incorporated in 1875, and was designated as the county seat of Sumter County for a time. Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads, as well as the band's cook and bus driver, were killed in a plane crash at Flying Baron Estates in 1982. In 1997, Leesburg Bikefest started. It has since become an annual spring tradition, with upwards of 250,000 people attending every year. In spring 2017, the Holding Company of the Villages planned to acquire 2,600 acres north and south of County Road 470 along the east side of Floridas Turnpike for future development. The initial plans call for building approximately 4,500 homes and some commercial development. LakeSumter State College and Beacon College are located in Leesberg. The population was 20,117 at the 2010 census. As of 2019, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 23,671. It is located 44.5 miles NNW of Orlando, 270 miles N of Miami, and 221 miles SW of Tallahassee, the state capital. The rapid growth of nearby Orlando has resulted in demand for housing here, as many people commute to Orlando for work. In the early 20th century, Leebsburg was an important center for watermelon production. The citrus industry was the principal business in this area for decades, but devastating freezes in December 1983 and February 1985 persuaded growers to move their groves further south.

History

Leesburg is the primary city name, but also Haines Creek are acceptable city names or spellings. The official name is City of Leesburg. Leesburg was first settled in 1857 by Evander McIver Lee. The city was incorporated in 1875, and was designated as the county seat of Sumter County for a time. Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads, as well as the band's cook and bus driver, were killed in a plane crash at Flying Baron Estates in 1982. In 1997, Leesburg Bikefest started. It has since become an annual spring tradition, with upwards of 250,000 people attending every year. In spring 2017, the Holding Company of the Villages planned to acquire 2,600 acres north and south of County Road 470 along the east side of Floridas Turnpike for future development. The initial plans call for building approximately 4,500 homes and some commercial development. For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or see www.samaritans.org for details. In the U.S. call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255 or visit http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. For confidential. support in the United States, call theNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-844-788-8880. For support in Europe, call the Samaritans on 0845 90 90 80 or visit http:// www.sophistication.org or the University of London.

Geography

Leesburg is located 44.5 miles NNW of Orlando, 270 miles N of Miami, and 221 miles SW of Tallahassee, the state capital. The city has a total area of 24.4 square miles (63 km²), of which 18.7 sq miles (48 km²) is land and 5.8sq miles (15km²) (23.65%) is water. Several major highways pass through Leesburg, including U.S. Highway 27, U.S. Highway 441 and S.R. 44. Leesburgh was on the western leg of the Dixie Highway. The town is located on the Florida Turnpike, which passes just to the south and west of Leesberg. The state capital is Tallah assee, which is 221 miles to the north. The county seat is Estero, and the city is on the Atlantic Coast. The population of the city was 2,788 in the 2010 United States Census. It has a population of 2,816. The area is mostly wooded, with a few patches of grassy land. It is located in the Florida Panhandle. The U.N. World Heritage Site is in the town, which was built in the early 1900s. It was the site of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s. The USGS says the city has an average annual rainfall of 1.2 inches (4.4 mm).

Demographics

As of the 2020 Census, there were exactly 27,000 people in Leesburg. Of these people, 68.3% were Caucasian, 26.8% were African-American, 0.2% Native American, 1.9% Asian, less than 0.05% Pacific Islander, 2.2%. The median income for a household in the city was $25,988, and the median incomes for a family was $33,250. The per capita income for the city is $15,762. The city's population was 15,956 as of the census of 2000. As of 2019, the city has a population of 27,068. The median household income is $37,092. The average household size is 2.26. The town's population is 15,066. The population density is 854.8 inhabitants per square mile (330.0/km²) The city has an average household income of $37.092, and an average family income of$33.250. It is the only city in the state to have a mayor-council form of government. It has a high school graduation rate of 9.7%. The city is home to a college football team (Leesburg State University) The town has a football stadium (Leesburg High School) It has an airfield (Lesburg Airport) It also has a golf course (Lakesburg Golf and Country Club). It is located on the Ohio River.

Arts and Culture

The Leesburg Public Library was founded in 1875. The Melon Patch Players is a nonprofit theater group founded in 1951. The Leesburg African American Museum contains African American artifacts. The library moved to a 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m2) building in 2007. It joined the Lake County Library System in 2002. The Leesberg Center for the Arts is a. nonprofit founded in 2000, to provide art education and exhibitions. It is located in the heart of the town, in the center of a historic district. It has a library, a museum, a theater and a center for the arts. It moved to the Venetian Gardens in 1953 when the library established a library charter, and in 2007, it moved to. a new building in the city. It was previously located in a different part of the city, in what is now the town's downtown area, in a building that was once the home of the American Museum of Natural History. The museum contains AfricanAmerican artifacts. It also has a theater, a gallery, an art gallery and an exhibition space. It opened its doors in 2000 and has been in the same building ever since. In 2007, the library moved into the new building. It now has a collection of more than 2,000 pieces of art, including works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Picasso and Picasso's "Laurentian" The museum also has an African American museum, which was opened in 2000.

Sports

Cooke Field was used by the Philadelphia Phillies for their spring training sessions from 1922 to 1924. In 1936, the city built the Ballpark at Venetian Gardens, used by several minor league baseball clubs that played in the Florida State League from 1937 to 1968. The city won league titles in 1941 and 1946. Since 2007, Leesburg has been the home of a wood-bat collegiate summer baseball team. Annie Oakley performed shooting exhibitions at Cooke Field in the 1920s, including one for the Philadelphia Phillpies and the St. Louis Cardinals. She also had a residence in the city in the 1930s and 1940s, when she was a sharpshooter for the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. The Leesberg Lightning are a collegiate baseball team in the Florida Collegiate Summer League. They play their home games at the Ball Park at Venenian Gardens. The Lightning play in a division of the Florida Collegiates Summer League, where they have won two league titles. They also play in the National Collegiate Baseball League, which they have also won two titles in. The team plays its home games in a stadium that was once the site of a World War II-era naval base. They are currently playing in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league division, which has a team that plays in the Gulf Coast League. Their home games are played at the Leesburg Ballpark, which was built in the 1950s and 1960s. The club's home field is the Leesburg Stadium, which opened in 1961.

Education

Lake County Schools operates public primary and secondary schools: Leesburg High School, Carver Middle School, Oak Park Middle School and Beverly Shores Elementary School. Private schools include First Academy-Leesburg, Saint Paul Catholic School and First Christian School. LakeSumter State College is a private college. Lake County Schools also operates a pre-school and an early learning center. The schools are located in the town of Leeesburg and in the towns of Leakesburg and Bebevly Shores.

Infrastructure

Leesburg International Airport is a small hub airport at the intersection of CR 44 and US 441, in front of Lake-Sumter State College. It is a hub of JetSky airlines, and serves Lake, Sumter, and Marion Counties. The airport was built in the 1950s and is one of the oldest airports in the state. It was named after Leesburg, South Carolina, where the airport was founded. It has a small airport hub, with a total of six runways. It also has a passenger terminal, which is used by JetSky and other low-cost carriers. It opened in 1961. It closed in the 1990s, when JetSky moved to a new hub in Tampa, Florida. It reopened in the 2000s, and is now a hub for JetSky again, with four runways and an additional passenger terminal. It serves three counties: Lake, Marion, and Sumter. It's also home to the University of South Carolina's College of Veterinary Medicine, which has an on-campus medical center and an off-campus emergency room. There are no direct flights to and from the airport, but the airport has a number of air-to-ground connections. It can be reached by car or by foot, and has a limited number of taxiways and a few parking spaces. It is located in the heart of Lake Sumter County, in the center of the town of Leeesburg, near the town's downtown area.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Leesburg, Lake County, Florida = 57. These Air Quality index is based on annual reports from the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The number of ozone alert days is used as an indicator of air quality, as are the amounts of seven pollutants including particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, and volatile organic chemicals. The Water Quality Index is 70. A measure of the quality of an area’s water supply as rated by the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality, using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. The Superfund Sites Index is 99. Higher is better (100=best). Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. The UV Index in Leesburg = 6.3 and is a measure of an area's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. This is most often a combination of sunny weather, altitude, and latitude. The UV Index has been defined by the WHO (www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-the-ultraviolet-(uv)-index) and is uniform worldwide.

Employed

The most recent city population of 27,000 individuals with a median age of 39.5 age the population grows by 26.38% in Leesburg, Lake County, Florida population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 702.27 residents per square mile of area (271.15/km²). There are average 2.29 people per household in the 8,497 households with an average household income of $30,290 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 12.10% of the available work force and has dropped -5.92% over the most recent 12-month period and the projected change in job supply over the next decade based on migration patterns, economic growth, and other factors will increase by 16.06%. The number of physicians in Leesburg per 100,000 population = 179.7.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Leesburg = 48.5 inches and the annual snowfall = 0 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 117. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 239. 91 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 46.4 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 28, where higher values mean a more pleasant climate. The Comfort Index measure recognizes that humidity by itself isn't the problem. (Have you noticed nobody ever complains about the weather being 'cold and humid?) It's in the summertime that we notice the humidity the most, when it's hot and muggy. Our Comfort Index uses a combination of afternoon summer temperature and humidity to closely predict the effect that the humidity will have on people.

Median Home Cost

The percentage of housing units in Leesburg, Lake County, Florida which are owned by the occupant = 51.10%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 27 years with median home cost = $118,010 and home appreciation of -5.52%. This is the value of the years most recent home sales data. Its important to note that this is not the average (or arithmetic mean). The median home price is the middle value when you arrange all the sales prices of homes from lowest to highest. This is a better indicator than the average, because the median is not changed as much by a few unusually high or low values. The property tax rate of $9.88 shown here is the rate per $1,000 of home value. If for simplification for example the tax rate is $14.00 and the home value is $250,000, the property tax would be $14.00 x ($250,000/1000), or $3500. This is the 'effective' tax rate.

Study

The local school district spends $4,441 per student. There are 16.5 students for each teacher in the school, 825 students for each Librarian and 392 students for each Counselor. 3.95% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 8.52% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 5.30% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).