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St. Martin, Minnesota

city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ981364 ↗
Source-derived summary

St. Martin or Saint Martin, Smartin to locals, is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 322 at the 2023 census. It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

St. Martin was laid out in 1866, and named after Martin of Tours. St. Martin was incorporated in 1891.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.86 square miles (2.23 km2), all land.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “St. Martin, Minnesota” is city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Martin, Minnesota and city, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 1866, 1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Martin, Minnesota and city is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q981364. Authority coordinates are 45.502, -94.667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023, 1866 and 1891.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “St. Martin, Minnesota”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow St. Martin, Minnesota primary sources, St. Martin, Minnesota archive and Martin research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “St. Martin, Minnesota”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “St. Martin, Minnesota” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.