Location
Kasota is in Le Sueur County KASOTA Township, settled in 1851, organized May 11, 1858, took the Dakota name of its village, in sections 29, 32, and 33, which was platted March 23, 1855, and was incorporated on April 28, 1890. It means, as noted by Prof. A. W. Williamson, "clear, or cleared off; the name sometimes applied by the Dakotas to the naked ridge or prairie plateau south of the village." This Kasota terrace of the valley drift, three miles long from north to south and averaging a half mile wide, is about 150 feet above the river and 75 feet lower than the general upland. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.
