{"id":15285,"count":3,"description":"Perkins is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,272 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from Walden Perkins, a congressman who helped establish the local post office. The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is headquartered here.\nPerkins was founded during the Land Run in April 1889. Joseph Wert staked a claim for 160 acres and offered up 40 acres of his land to be established as a township. The town went through three names in its first year- Cimarron, Italy, and then Perkins. It was named after Biship Walden Perkins, a congressman from Kansas that pulled string to establish the post office for the new township.\nPerkins is located at 35\u00b058\u203236\u2033N 97\u00b001\u203255\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff35.976598\u00b0N 97.031813\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 35.976598; -97.031813. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7\u00a0km), all of it land. Perkins is located on US Route 177 south of its junction with State Highway 33.\nNotes: Frank \"Pistol Pete\" Eaton is also buried in Perkins...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/perkins\/","name":"Perkins","slug":"perkins","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/15285","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=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}