[4] Kasota is about halfway between Mankato and St. Peter on the eastern side of the Minnesota River.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.00 square mile (2.59 km2), all land.

The bandits acquired nothing of value, but their activities came under the review of Pinkerton detectives, and both were apprehended in June 1893.

He began applying modern quarrying methods, and in 1889 formed a partnership with Tyrrell Swan Willcox, an immigrant from Rugby, England, who was instrumental in promoting the use of polished Kasota limestone for interior and exterior residential use.

Much of the industry's boom was caused by the railroads' expansion westward, which required large quantities of stone for trestles and culverts.

This led to the creation of the park on County Road 21 in the town center, after the company was forced to fill in the quarry near the homes of city residents.

The Vetter Stone Company bought the Babcock quarries, further expanding the business, which now operates just outside the Mankato city limits.

Much of the former Kasota quarry is occupied by Unimin Corporation, which mines silica sand for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking").

[10] Kasota (Dakota for "a cleared place")[11] was the name of a wooden Great Lakes iron ore steamer, built in 1884.

[13] The Kasota was salvaged and rebuilt in 1892[13] but sank again after springing a leak during a storm off Grand Marais, Michigan, on September 19, 1903.

[12] The USS Kasota was a naval tugboat, launched in 1944 and struck from the Navy list in 1961.

It is believed that the Kasota (also known as the "Mighty Deuces") was the last wooden hull tug in the Navy at the time.