{"id":15238,"count":1,"description":"Mannington is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, United States located in the hills of North-Central West Virginia. Known as Mannington since 1856, the town is rich with history and heritage \u2013 from Native American relics to frontiersmen and their settlements to Civil War legends. Perhaps what makes Mannington most unusual is the impact of the oil and gas boom in 1890 that literally changed the shape of the town. The population of Mannington was 2,124 at the 2000 census.\nMannington is located at 39\u00b031\u203238\u2033N 80\u00b020\u203223\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff39.52722\u00b0N 80.33972\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 39.52722; -80.33972 (39.527340, -80.339742), along Buffalo Creek.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.1\u00a0km), all land.\nAt the time of the first settlement, the west fork of Buffalo Creek was known as Warrior\u2019s Fork, while the North Fork has historically borne the name of Pyle's Fork. One of the first settlers in the area was John Ice, who was born in the valley of the South Branch...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mannington\/","name":"Mannington","slug":"mannington","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/15238","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=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}