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 93. The population density is 141.9 people per km². St. Leo is located at 44.7172°N, 96.0523°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Leo is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56264.

St. Leo remains a quiet sentinel of the high prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the earth itself. It lies 22.7 miles northwest of Marshall, MN (from Marshall, MN: bearing 325°T), and is situated 22.4 miles southwest of Montevideo. The landscape is defined by the steady, unyielding patience of open farmland, broken only by the thin, intermittent veins of Spring Creek as it winds through the fields two miles away. Beyond the immediate grid of the grid-locked roads, the distant shapes of the Antelope Hills offer a jagged, violet silhouette against the sunset, while the nearby Omro State Wildlife Management Area provides a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal marshland. On the rare, still evenings of late autumn, the air carries a crisp, metallic clarity that makes the distant surface of Burton Lake shimmer like a fallen coin in the tall grass five miles to the east.

St. Leo draws its rhythm from the cycles of the soil and the hard-won traditions of the plains, maintaining an economy deeply rooted in the seasonal labor of the surrounding acreage. The history of the place is etched into the modest architecture of its core, where the echoes of early settlers remain present in the sturdy, clapboard structures that have weathered decades of biting winter wind. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a long-standing agricultural tenure, where the success of the harvest dictates the pulse of the local calendar. Despite the inevitable pull of the modern world, the people of St. Leo cultivate a stubborn independence, finding a quiet beauty in the way the morning light catches the dust motes in a grain elevator or the hushed, expansive solitude that defines these inland plains.

About This St. Leo Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Leo, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.717183, -96.052257. 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 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).

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.