{"id":16506,"count":1,"description":"Elk Park is a town in Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The town was so named because of the number of Elk killed there. The population was 459 at the 2000 census.\nElk Park is located at 36\u00b09\u203230\u2033N 81\u00b058\u203252\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff36.15833\u00b0N 81.98111\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 36.15833; -81.98111 (36.158356, -81.981088).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8\u00a0km), all of it land.\nIn 1882, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (\"Tweetsie\") linked Cranberry and Johnson City, Tennessee with a stop at Elk Park; three years later, Elk Park was incorporated. In 1911, Avery County was established; originally Elk Park was to serve as the county seat, but was changed after North Carolina Lieutenant-Governor William C. Newland made a deal that the new county seat would be named after him for his aid in passage of the bill. However, Elk Park did serve as a temporary county seat while the new incorporated town of Newland was being constructed. In 1950,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/elk-park\/","name":"Elk Park","slug":"elk-park","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16506","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=16506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}