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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.

Le Center within Le Sueur County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Le 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,499
20202,517+18 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Storms near this place

32 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLe Center$50,000A 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 2019Thunderstorm WindLe Center$15,000A tree blew down on a trailer in Le Center.
May 2012HailLe Center$500Some of the hail broke windows.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLe Center-Report of a tree down in Le Center.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLe Center-A large pine tree was down on a power line.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLe Center-A few trees were toppled in the town of Le Center.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLe Center-A semi-trailer was blown off the road east of Le Center.
July 2013Heavy RainLe Center-A measured rainfall amount of 3.25 inches fell in less than 3 hours.
March 2010FloodLe Center-County Road 113 near Le Center was closed due to flooding.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLe Center-Measured at Le Center High School.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLe Center-More than 40 trees were downed or damaged at a country club on 376th Street.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLe Center-Power lines were downed.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLe 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 1998Thunderstorm WindLe Center-Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997HailLe Center-Trees also reported down on south side of Jefferson Lake.
July 2024HailLe Center-no account filed
July 2024HailLe Center-no account filed
May 2022HailLe Center-no account filed
May 2022HailLe Center-no account filed
April 2022HailLe Center-no account filed
May 2017HailLe Center-no account filed
June 2016HailLe Center-no account filed
June 2012HailLe Center-no account filed
August 2011HailLe Center-no account filed
May 2008HailLe Center-no account filed
July 2006HailLe Center-no account filed
July 2004HailLe Center-no account filed
July 2002HailLe Center-no account filed
May 2000HailLe Center-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindLe Center-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Le Center-no account filed
August 1997Tornado (F0)Le Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Sueur County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Saint Henry3.1 miles10
Lexington3.9 miles10
Cordova4.8 miles10
Cleveland7.2 miles10
Saint Thomas7.6 miles10
Doyle8.3 miles10
Montgomery8.6 miles10
Heidelberg8.9 miles10

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1911184The 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.