Leesburg is an unincorporated community in Camp County, Texas, in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas. It lies along State Highway 11, about seven miles west of Pittsburg, the county seat, and is best understood as a small rural crossroads community rather than a town. The community's origins trace to the late 1870s, when the East Line and Red River Railroad built through Camp County and Leesburg became a station on the line. It grew modestly in the following years; by 1884 it had a mill, a gin, and three stores, with a population of about fifty. Leesburg also played an early role in county politics: when Camp County was organized in 1874, Leesburg finished second to Pittsburg in the vote to choose the county seat, a near-miss that shaped its long-term status as a satellite of its larger neighbor. Leesburg has remained small. Its population has held near 115 people since the late twentieth century, and its own school district was consolidated with the Pittsburg Independent School District in 1955. The community retained a post office and a handful of businesses for decades, reflecting its continued role as a local service point for the surrounding countryside. Today Leesburg's identity is tied to its lake-country setting. It sits between Lake Bob Sandlin, a roughly 9,000-acre reservoir to the north, and Lake O' the Pines to the east, with Lake Bob Sandlin State Park a short drive away. This location makes Leesburg a quiet base for fishing, boating, and rural living, within easy reach of Pittsburg's schools, shops, and services — a small community defined more by its landscape than by its built-up center.