THE LE SUEUR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Big Woods setting.
Le Sueur County has 448.8 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Le Sueur County: Big Woods, Des Moines Lobe.
This transition between northern forests and southern farming country includes lakes, wetlands and hardwood woodland. Glacial landforms support a mosaic of open land and wooded areas.
Regional context: North Central Hardwood Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Le Sueur County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Big Woods99.8%
- Des Moines Lobe0.2%
Western Corn Belt Plains in Le Sueur County
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Le Sueur County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Le Sueur County, including Kasota, Derrynane, Tyrone. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Le Sueur County by land and water
The Census records 25.2 square miles of water within Le Sueur County, or 5.3% of its total area. That share is close to Le Sueur County’s 5.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Le Sueur County has 267.8 times the land area of nearby Le Center city (1.68 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blue Earth County, Nicollet County, Rice County, Scott County, Sibley County, Waseca County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

