Leesville, Louisiana Leesville, Louisiana Country United States State Louisiana Parish Vernon Vernon Parish Louisiana incorporated and unincorporated areas Leesville highlighted.svg Location in Vernon Parish and the state of Louisiana.
Louisiana in United States (US48).svg Location of Louisiana in the United States Website: City of Leesville, Louisiana Leesville is a small town/city and the church seat of Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States. The populace was 6,612 at the 2010 United States Census.
The populations of Fort Polk and Leesville, if combined, would result in a town/city with a populace of more than 20,000.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.49 square miles (14.2 km2), of which 5.45 square miles (14.1 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.55%) is water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Leesville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Leesville, Louisiana In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 11.0% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $23,864, and the median income for a family was $30,435.
About 24.5% of families and 28.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 42.0% of those under age 18 and 15.1% of those age 65 or over.
The Vernon Parish School District operates enhance schools: West Leesville Elementary School: K-4 East Leesville Elementary School: K-4 Vernon Middle School: 5th and 6th undertaking Leesville High School: 9th through 12th undertaking Adams, state representative from Vernon Parish from 1956 to 1968 James Armes, Louisiana state representative for Beauregard and Vernon churches since 2008; former member of the Vernon Parish School Board and landscape contractor in Leesville Eddie Fuller - National Football League player, running back with the Buffalo Bills, also played for Louisiana State University and was part of the play which became known as the "Earthquake game". Buddy Leach - Politician, former member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 4th congressional district, Louisiana House of Representatives, and Louisiana Democratic state chairman; unsuccessful candidate for state treasurer in 1987, governor in 2003, and for the Louisiana State Senate in 2007; brother of Carolyn Huntoon Jim Mitchell - horse breeder and judge of the Louisiana 30th Judicial District Court in Leesville from 2009 until his death in 2015. D'Anthony Smith National Football League Born in Berlin, Germany, but spent his teen years in Leesville while family was stationed at Fort Polk.
Attended Pickering High School in Pickering Louisiana and Louisiana Tech.
Smith, state senator, former state representative, and former president of the Vernon Parish Police Jury "City of Leesville, Louisiana".
City of Leesville, Louisiana.
United States Geological Survey.
Climate Summary for Leesville, Louisiana "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
(Archive) Vernon Parish Library.
"Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016: Vernon Parish" (PDF).
City of Leesville Municipalities and communities of Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States
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Cities in Louisiana - Cities in Vernon Parish, Louisiana - Parish seats in Louisiana - Cities in the Central Louisiana
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