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Le Roy, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Le Roy City. It lies in ZIP code area 55951. It stands on Little Iowa River. The Survey maps it on the Le Roy quadrangle. 957 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

Le Roy within Mower County

On record in Le Roy

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Le Roy grew from 929 to 957 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
2010929
2020957+28 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Le Roy between 1999 and 2012, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 November 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Mower County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Le Roy: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Durst PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eastman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Roy in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 3 flash 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 2004Tornado (F3)Le Roy$3,000,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$50,000A barn was destroyed near Le Roy.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$50,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$50,000no account filed
June 2019Flash FloodLe Roy$25,000Runoff from heavy rain produced flash flooding across the eastern portions of Mower County. The intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and State Highway 16 was covered in water and both Deer Creek and Bear Creek went out of their banks.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$15,000no account filed
June 2009HailLe Roy$10,000no account filed
June 2005HailLe Roy$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailLe Roy$2,500no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$400no account filed
July 2021Funnel CloudLe Roy-A funnel cloud was sighted near Le Roy.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-An estimated 59 mph wind just occurred near Le Roy.
July 2016Funnel CloudLe Roy-A funnel cloud was sighted north of Le Roy.
August 2014HailLe Roy-Quarter sized hail was reported in Le Roy.
May 2013HailLe Roy-Quarter sized hail just outside of Le Roy.
June 2013Flash FloodLe Roy-Heavy rain produced flash flooding over the southeast corner of Mower County. Rapidly rising water from the Upper Iowa River covered State Highway 56 near Le Roy.
May 2013Flash FloodLe Roy-Water from a branch of the Upper Iowa River was flowing over State Highway 56 west of Le Roy.
May 2013Heavy RainLe Roy-In Le Roy, 1.1 inches of rain fell in about 30 minutes.
June 2010Heavy RainLe Roy-An official rainfall total of 3.20 inches was reported.
May 2008Funnel CloudLe Roy-A trained spotter east of Le Roy reported a couple of small funnel clouds.
August 2008Funnel CloudLe Roy-Numerous, brief funnel clouds were reported to KTTC-TV by technicians at a wind farm in Mower County.
April 2022HailLe Roy-no account filed
March 2017HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2013HailLe Roy-no account filed
May 2012HailLe Roy-no account filed
June 2009HailLe Roy-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-no account filed
May 2006HailLe Roy-no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Le Roy-no account filed
October 2004HailLe Roy-no account filed
May 2003HailLe Roy-no account filed
August 2000HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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
Taopi8.1 miles8
Adams12.1 miles8
Grand Meadow14.0 miles7
Johnsburg14.1 miles9
Elkton15.1 miles7
Dexter17.9 miles7
Racine18.4 miles9
Rose Creek18.6 miles9

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 RoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230121The 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 646545. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.