La Salle Minnesota Map

About La Salle, Minnesota

La Salle is a locality in Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 79. The population density is 350.6 people per km². La Salle is located at 44.0708°N, 94.5697°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. La Salle is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56056.

La Salle emerges from the flatness of the surrounding plains as a small collection of structures defined by the vast, open sky and the persistent sweep of the prairie wind. It lies 11.6 miles south-southeast of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 161°T), and is situated 6.7 miles north-northeast of St. James. James. The land here carries the quiet weight of ancient glacial retreat, where the soil is thick, dark, and indifferent to the passage of human labor. Only a mile away, the Watonwan River carves a deliberate, winding path through the terrain, its waters moving with a sluggish, rhythmic intensity that dictates the moisture of the lowlands. To the north, the elevation shifts subtly toward Fort Hill, a modest rise that breaks the horizon’s monotony, while the nearby Lake Hanska State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal marshland, mirroring the stillness that settles over the region whenever the sun retreats behind the western fields.

La Salle remains anchored to the rhythms of an agrarian economy that has persisted through cycles of harvest and dormancy for generations. The history of the region is written in the grain elevators that punctuate the skyline, serving as silent sentinels over a landscape where the primary industry is the cultivation of the earth itself. Life in La Salle moves in alignment with the seasonal shifts, from the intense labor of planting to the long, hollow silence of the deep winter months. Near the shores of Lake Hanska, the land reflects a heritage of endurance, where residents navigate the isolation of the plains with a stoic, practical resolve. Even the distant, arid memory of the Broom Lakebed serves as a reminder of the shifting environmental character of the region, grounding the identity of La Salle in a landscape that is both productive and profoundly solitary.

About This La Salle Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Salle, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.070792, -94.569694. 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 La Salle includes the ZIP code (56056), telephone area code (320), county seat of Watonwan County (St. James), and school district assignment (St. James 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.