Leesville, OH

Leesville is a village in southwestern Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 127 residents. Leesville is part of the Canton–Massillon metropolitan area. Leesville was platted August 1, 1812, as Leesburg in what was then One Leg Township, Tuscarawas County, by Thomas Price and Peter Saunders. The short version is that Leesville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Leesville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Leesville is on State Route 212 near the terminus of State Route 164. The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway previously the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad passes through the town. Leesville includes the Wheeling.