I consider myself, living in a rural small town...but probably not to the standards discussed in this thread.
Glencoe's Pop. is 5500, it is the county seat in a county that is mostly flat farm land,
BUT,
I suspect, before I die, Glencoe will officially become a suburb of Minneapolis...or as a outer urban ring is often called a X-urb ?
Glencoe is about 7 miles from the county line...which borders what is called "The seven county metro area" of the Twin cities. That in itself, doesn't bode well from my ability to say I am rural.