Le Center, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Le Center City. It lies in ZIP code area 56057. The Survey maps it on the Le Center quadrangle. 2,517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
On record in Le Center
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jaillisted 1981
Population over time
2 figuresLe Center grew from 2,499 to 2,517 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,499 | |
| 2020 | 2,517 | +18 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Le Center quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
32 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Center in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | $50,000 | A swath of downed trees and power lines occurred from Le Center to Montgomery. At one point, the local utility company had near 150 members working on the power outages. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | $15,000 | A tree blew down on a trailer in Le Center. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Le Center | $500 | Some of the hail broke windows. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | Report of a tree down in Le Center. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | A large pine tree was down on a power line. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | A few trees were toppled in the town of Le Center. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | A semi-trailer was blown off the road east of Le Center. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Le Center | - | A measured rainfall amount of 3.25 inches fell in less than 3 hours. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Le Center | - | County Road 113 near Le Center was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | Measured at Le Center High School. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | More than 40 trees were downed or damaged at a country club on 376th Street. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | Power lines were downed. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | Nineteen trees were downed at a farming showground on County Road 26. A 26-foot camper was also rocked by the high winds on site. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | Trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Le Center | - | Trees also reported down on south side of Jefferson Lake. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Le Center | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Le Center | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Henry | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Lexington | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Cordova | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cleveland | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Thomas | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Doyle | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Montgomery | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Heidelberg | 8.9 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Le Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1911184 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 646552. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





