Established as a railroad village and chartered as a municipality on February 20, 1886, Leland is primarily agricultural. The area is located 130 feet above sea level. The average annual temperature is 63.2 F degrees with a January average of 42.5 F degrees and a July average of 81.9 F degrees. Average rainfall is 52.03 inches and an average snowfall of 2 inches. The average first freezing temperature falls on November 4 and the average last freezing temperature falls on March 23.

Temperatures

Highest: 109 F on July 12, 1930

* The summer of 1930 is listed as the hottest summer on the books with a record thirty-one days of 100 degrees and above temperatures. The summer of 1954 had twenty-three days of 100-plus temperatures and holds the record for the most "lingering heat" with seventy-nine days of 95-plus temperatures and 121 days of 90-plus heat.

Lowest: -5 F on January 31, 1936 and February 2, 1951

Significant Weather/Natural Disaster Events

December 28, 1876 - January 1, 1877	Twenty-two inches of snow
April 1927	Flood
Summer 1930	Heat and Drought
June 16, 1932	Hailstones as large as baseballs
March 22, 1968	Seven inches of snow
January 7, 1973	Ice Storm
February 9-10, 1994	Ice Storm
January 27, 2000	Seven inches of snow