{"id":14824,"count":2,"description":"Benwood is a city in Marshall County, West Virginia, along the Ohio River. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,585 at the 2000 census.\nBenwood was chartered in 1853 and incorporated in 1895. The name of the city is derived from \"Ben's Woods\", as Benjamin McMechen (1777 - 1855) inherited that portion of land from the estate of his father, William McMechen (1724 - 1797), and built his homestead upon it. The neighboring city of McMechen is named after William McMechen and his family, who were among the earliest settlers of this area.\nBenwood is located at 40\u00b000\u203246\u2033N 80\u00b044\u203202\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.012748\u00b0N 80.734008\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.012748; -80.734008 (40.012748, -80.734008).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.8\u00a0square miles (4.8\u00a0km), of which, 1.2\u00a0square miles (3.2\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.6\u00a0square miles (1.5\u00a0km) of it (32.07%) is water.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 1,585 people, 706 households, and 429...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/benwood\/","name":"Benwood","slug":"benwood","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/14824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=14824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}