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Leesburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, served by ZIP Code 08327 — a South Jersey river village, not to be confused with Leesburg, Virginia.

Leesburg was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted 601 residents across its 1.97 square miles.

The land under Leesburg was surveyed in 1691 by John Worledge and John Budd, and its first settlers were most likely Swedish families drawn to the Maurice River.

The town itself was founded in 1795 by John Lee, a shipwright from Egg Harbor, who with his brothers opened the area's first shipyard and fixed its future as a shipbuilding village.

Leesburg grew into a center for building coastal vessels on the Maurice River, just six miles from Delaware Bay, and in 1850 James Ward added a marine railway so larger ships could be hauled out for repair.

In the early twentieth century the Leesburg Packing Company cannery seasonally employed about 100 people, and the J. C. Fifield and Son fertilizer works was another major local industry.

The sand-mining company WHIBCO Inc. keeps its administrative offices in the buildings of the former Del Bay Shipyard, a surviving trace of Leesburg's shipbuilding era.

Bayside State Prison stands in Leesburg; it was renamed from Leesburg State Prison in 1988, a change some residents resented because the prison was the community's best-known landmark.

Thomas Lee (1780–1856), who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837, is among the notable figures associated with Leesburg.

Leesburg children are zoned to the Maurice River Township School District for elementary school, and township high school students attend Millville High School under a sending/receiving arrangement.