{"id":16823,"count":2,"description":"Chapin is a town in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,445 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nChapin is located at 34\u00b09\u203257\u2033N 81\u00b020\u203250\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff34.16583\u00b0N 81.34722\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 34.16583; -81.34722 (34.165783, -81.347260).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7\u00a0km), of which, 1.8 square miles (4.7\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.55% is water.\nWhile Chapin is a part of Lexington County, the creation of Lake Murray, South Carolina by the Dreher Shoals Dam cut Chapin off from the rest of the county, creating something of an exclave.\nThe town is named after Martin Chapin, who built the Chapin Hotel in the 1880s along the new rail line that ran from Columbia, South Carolina to Laurens, South Carolina. Martin Chapin came to Chapin from Cortland, New York.\nWithin a five-mile radius around Chapin, (78.49 square miles) there was a population of 7,755 in 1990 and 11...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/chapin\/","name":"Chapin","slug":"chapin","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16823","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=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}