St. Leo Minnesota Map

About St. Leo, Minnesota

St. Leo is a locality in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 153. The population density is 96.2 people per km². St. Leo is located at 44.7172°N, 96.0523°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 56264.

St. Leo lies under a sky that often stretches from horizon to horizon, a vast canvas where clouds drift like slow ships. It lies 77.1 miles west-north-west of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 296°T), and is situated 11.4 miles north-north-west of Minneota. The land here in Yellow Medicine County is a study in subtle contours, a gentle rolling prairie that has been shaped by wind and water over millennia. Fields of corn and soybeans, in their ordered rows, meet the wilder grasses of the roadside ditches, their greens and golds shifting with the seasons. In the late afternoon, the sun dips low, casting long, soft shadows that imbue the landscape with a quiet luminescence, a golden haze that settles over the cultivated earth and the occasional cluster of trees. The air itself carries a faint, dry scent, a perfume of dust and growing things, a constant reminder of the agricultural heart that beats beneath the surface. The history of St. Leo is deeply interwoven with the families who first broke this prairie soil, their resilience and faith forming the bedrock of the community. This area's economy has always been tethered to the bounty of the land, with farming remaining a central pillar, evident in the silos that punctuate the horizon and the machinery that moves across the fields with purposeful grace. While not a place of grand pronouncements or bustling metropolises, St. Leo possesses a distinctive character, a quiet self-reliance that echoes the pioneers who first carved out a life here. The very stillness of the place, broken only by the murmur of the wind or the distant hum of a tractor, offers a profound sense of peace, a testament to the enduring spirit of rural life in this corner of Minnesota.

About This St. Leo Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Leo, Minnesota — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 44.717183, -96.052257. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on St. Leo and Yellow Medicine County.

Detailed location data for St. Leo includes the ZIP code (56264), telephone area code (320), county seat of Yellow Medicine County (Granite Falls), and school district assignment (Canby Public School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct St. Leo is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.