{"id":16950,"count":3,"description":"Vance is a town in Bibb and Tuscaloosa Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama, just outside of the city of Tuscaloosa. It is most famous for the Mercedes-Benz plant, currently the only one in North America. The current mayor of Vance is Keith Mahaffey.\nThe Tuscaloosa County portion of Vance is part of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Bibb County portion is part of the Birmingham\u2013Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nThe town of Vance was first settled in 1830 by David M. Lindley. At that time, the town was called Trion and it was a trading post on the Old Huntsville Road.\nIn 1872, Trion was renamed Smallwood in honor of sawmill owner Charles Smallwood.\nIn 1879, Smallwood was renamed its current name Vance in honor of Dr. William Vance of North Carolina.\nVance is located at 33\u00b09'52.276\" North, 87\u00b013'54.185\" West (33.164521, -87.231718).\nAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.2 square miles (21\u00a0km), all of it land.\nAs of the census of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/vance\/","name":"Vance","slug":"vance","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16950","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=16950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}