Cannon City is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Cannon City Township,

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, United States, five miles northeast of Faribault. The community is located at the junction of Rice County Road 20 (Cannon City Boulevard) and Crystal Lake Trail. Cannon City was

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ted in 1855, and named after the nearby Cannon River. The community of Cannon City was the model for Metropolisville in the novel ''The Mystery of Metropolisville'' by

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