Leota is a census-designated place (CDP) in Leota Township, Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 209 at the 2000 census.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km), all land. Leota is situated on the western side of the Buffalo Ridge, the drainage divide in the company of the Mississippi River and Missouri River systems.

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The town of Leota was named after Leota Township in which it is located. The tally has it that Leota was the name of a pubertal Indian woman who figured in a romantic version familiar to W. G. Barnard, one of the township’s first residents. However existence of such a credit cannot be verified. If true, Leota Township (and the town of Leota) are the without help place names in whatever of Nobles County that memorialize specific Native Americans. The town of Leota is situated on sections 5 and 8 of the township. Leota was traditional in 1891 as a agreement of Dutch Farmers who migrated northward from other Dutch Settlement in Orange City, Iowa. The first building erected in Leota was the Dutch Reformed Church. Later in 1891, John DeBoer, Nick DeBoer, and James TenCate erected a second building that became Leota’s first general store. A pronounce office was normal in 1893, and the Christian Reformed Church was built in 1898. The town was surveyed by M. S. Smith for James TenCate, and the plat was dedicated upon January 1, 1902. Leota was never incorporated, though it remains a successful community. The U. S. Census Bureau classifies Leota as a census-designated place (CDP). CDPs are populated areas that lack separate municipal government, but which instead physically resemble incorporated places.