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Le Sueur, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Le Sueur City. It lies in ZIP code area 56058. It stands on Forest Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Le Sueur quadrangle. 4,213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Le Sueur within Le Sueur County

On record in Le Sueur

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 7 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Le Sueur in 2012, burning under an acre 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBLAKELY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Sueur 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 Sueur: 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Red Wing Sewer Pipe Pit No 3ClayPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mullenaheur PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Le Sueur County

Storms near this place

20 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Sueur in 20 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur$25,000Several large trees and power lines were blown down. In addition, some structural damage occurred to a building.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur$1,000There were a number of large tree limbs blown down near Le Sueur. One that was 12 inches in diameter.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur-Multiple large trees were blown down.
June 2024Heavy RainLe Sueur-Nearly 3 inches of rain fell in northern Le Sueur county.
September 2019HailLe Sueur-There was a swath of large hail, which moved from Le Sueur, northeast to around Heidelberg.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur-Several trees were blown down in Le Sueur.
June 2014Flash FloodLe Sueur-Several county roads, including 116, 117, 188 and 28 were closed due to excessive rainfall and washout roadways. There were also reports of trees downed along roads due to the saturated soils and gusty winds.
June 2012HailLe Sueur-Crop damage was reported due to the combination of strong winds and hail across northern Le Sueur County.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur-Several large tree branches were blown down.
June 2012Flash FloodLe Sueur-The underpass on Bridge Street was closed due to flooding.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur-Large trees toppled in residential yard, along with thirty foot steel windmill.
August 2007Flash FloodLe Sueur-Highway 13 barricaded near Montgomery. A few roads were also barricaded near Le Sueur. Rainfall totaled 6 inches in Le Center.
June 2007HailLe Sueur-Twelve thousand acres of crop damage reported just north and east of the city, as reported by the Le Sueur Free Press. The County Emergency Manager reported most of the damage occurred in Tyron and Lexington townships. There was 100 percent loss to much of the corn, soybeans and small grain crops according to University of Minnesota Extension Agent Dave Pfarr. Reports of tennis ball (2.5 inch) and baseball size hail (2.75 inch) were described in the newspaper, but time and location were not given.
June 2006Flash FloodLe Sueur-At least six inches of water on roads. Gravel washed out of parking lots.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur-At least 25 large trees were downed across Le Sueur. One tree fell onto a home at Nichols Court and caused considerable damage to the roof and an upstairs bedroom. Another tree blocked County Road 112.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindLe Sueur-A machine shed was blown over.
June 2012HailLe Sueur-no account filed
April 2007HailLe Sueur-no account filed
July 2006HailLe Sueur-no account filed
June 2005HailLe Sueur-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
Kingsway Estates1.3 miles12
Ottawa5.7 miles12
Saint Henry8.6 miles10
Saint Thomas8.7 miles10
Cleveland10.2 miles10
Le Center11.0 miles10
Lexington11.4 miles10
Kasota11.9 miles13

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 SueurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924183The 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 654787. 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.