{"id":14969,"count":4,"description":"Pickens, formerly called Pickens Courthouse, is a city in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,012 at the 2000 census, at which time it was listed as a town; the change to a city was made in 1998, but not reported to the Census Bureau until 2001. It is the county seat of Pickens County. It was named after Andrew Pickens (1739\u20131817), an American revolutionary soldier and US Congressman for South Carolina.\nPickens is part of the Greenville\u2013Mauldin\u2013Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nPickens is located at 34\u00b052\u203254\u2033N 82\u00b042\u203227\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff34.88167\u00b0N 82.7075\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 34.88167; -82.7075 (34.881700, -82.707477).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town had a total area of 2.5\u00a0square miles (6.4\u00a0km\u00b2), of which, 2.5\u00a0square miles (6.3\u00a0km\u00b2) of it is land and 0.04\u00a0square miles (0.1\u00a0km\u00b2) of it (0.81%) is water.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 3,012 people, 1,281 households, and 794 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,227.1 people per...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/pickens\/","name":"Pickens","slug":"pickens","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/14969","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=14969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}