Cleveland Minnesota Map

About Cleveland, Minnesota

Cleveland is a locality in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 747. The population density is 520.6 people per km². Cleveland is located at 44.3255°N, 93.8377°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cleveland is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56017.

Cleveland emerges from the vast, open horizon of the Minnesota prairie as a quiet intersection of sky and cultivated earth. It lies 5.9 miles east of St. Peter, MN (from St. Peter, MN: bearing 89°T), and is situated 6.9 miles southwest of Le Center. The landscape surrounding Cleveland is defined by the steady, glacial reach of the plains, where the light at dusk stretches long and thin across the fields, turning the stubble of the harvest into a shimmering, pale gold. A mere mile away, the quiet waters of Savidge Lake hold the reflection of the clouds, while the nearby Savidge Lake State Aquatic Management Area (Le Sueur) preserves a fragment of the wilder, marshy terrain that once dominated this interior expanse. Farther out, the subtle rise of Klondike Hill breaks the monotony of the flatlands, and the distant, dry depression of the Dove Lakebed marks the slow, ancient shifts of the geology beneath the soil.

Agriculture serves as the primary pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the seasons dictating the quiet activities of those who work the land around Cleveland. The history of the area is tied to the stubborn endurance of settlers who carved their lives out of the thickets and tallgrass, eventually finding a modest prosperity in the fertile, dark loam. Dog Creek winds its way through the periphery, a small, unassuming artery that has witnessed the slow evolution of the local homesteads into a modern, unassuming grid. Life here maintains a deliberate pace, colored by the stark, deep winters that demand a particular kind of resilience from the inhabitants, who move through their days with the pragmatic grace of people accustomed to the wide, unyielding solitude of the Midwest.

About This Cleveland Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cleveland, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.325522, -93.837734. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Cleveland includes the ZIP code (56017), telephone area code (320), county seat of Le Sueur County (Le Center), and school district assignment (Cleveland Public School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.