{
  "dataset": "Cities in Martin County, Minnesota: 2026 geography snapshot",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-09-19",
  "publisher": "Josh Liljenquist's official website",
  "scope": "Ten incorporated cities associated with Martin County, with Fairmont and Ormsby jurisdiction notes.",
  "record_count": 10,
  "county_seat": "Fairmont",
  "cross_county_city": "Ormsby",
  "unincorporated_context": [
    "East Chain"
  ],
  "records": [
    {
      "slug": "ceylon",
      "name": "Ceylon",
      "role": "An incorporated southern Martin County city whose official history traces its growth to the railroad and its 1900 incorporation.",
      "source_url": "https://cityofceylon.com/",
      "source_class": "official city website"
    },
    {
      "slug": "dunnell",
      "name": "Dunnell",
      "role": "A small incorporated community in southern Martin County, included in the county's current municipal geography.",
      "source_url": "https://gis.lcc.mn.gov/php/house.php?District=&Report=HouseMCD&SrtFld=MCD",
      "source_class": "official Minnesota legislative geography"
    },
    {
      "slug": "fairmont",
      "name": "Fairmont",
      "role": "The Martin County seat and the county's largest city; it has a distinct city-level authority cluster on this site.",
      "source_url": "https://fairmont.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CARecruitment.pdf",
      "source_class": "official city publication",
      "site_url": "/fairmont/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "granada",
      "name": "Granada",
      "role": "An incorporated eastern Martin County community served by the Granada-Huntley-East Chain school district.",
      "source_url": "https://www.ghec.k12.mn.us/",
      "source_class": "official school district"
    },
    {
      "slug": "northrop",
      "name": "Northrop",
      "role": "An incorporated Martin County community represented in current state and county geography.",
      "source_url": "https://gis.lcc.mn.gov/php/house.php?District=&Report=HouseMCD&SrtFld=MCD",
      "source_class": "official Minnesota legislative geography"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ormsby",
      "name": "Ormsby",
      "role": "An incorporated city that crosses the Martin–Watonwan county line; this page preserves that jurisdictional limitation.",
      "source_url": "https://gis.lcc.mn.gov/php/house.php?District=&Report=HouseMCD&SrtFld=MCD",
      "source_class": "official Minnesota legislative geography"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sherburn",
      "name": "Sherburn",
      "role": "An incorporated western Martin County community and part of the Martin County West school network.",
      "source_url": "https://www.martin.k12.mn.us/schools",
      "source_class": "official school district"
    },
    {
      "slug": "trimont",
      "name": "Trimont",
      "role": "An incorporated western Martin County community historically known as Triumph and represented in county archival records.",
      "source_url": "https://archivesspace.lib.mnsu.edu/public/repositories/4/resources/649",
      "source_class": "university archival finding aid"
    },
    {
      "slug": "truman",
      "name": "Truman",
      "role": "An incorporated eastern Martin County city whose official history documents railroad, agricultural and community development.",
      "source_url": "https://trumanmn.us/truman-history",
      "source_class": "official city history"
    },
    {
      "slug": "welcome",
      "name": "Welcome",
      "role": "An incorporated Martin County community within the Martin County West school and service area.",
      "source_url": "https://www.martin.k12.mn.us/schools",
      "source_class": "official school district"
    }
  ]
}