{"id":17227,"count":5,"description":"Belton is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,623 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Bell County.\nBelton is part of the Killeen\u2013Temple\u2013Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nBelton is located at 31\u00b03\u203232\u2033N 97\u00b027\u203248\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff31.05889\u00b0N 97.46333\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 31.05889; -97.46333 (31.058904, -97.463382).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.2 square miles (34\u00a0km), of which, 12.5 square miles (32\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8\u00a0km) of it (5.09%) is water.\nBelton is just south of Temple and north of Salado on Interstate 35.\nBelton was platted in 1850 with the name of Nolandville. It was given its current name in 1851, named after Texas' Governor, Peter Hansborough Bell. As the county seat of the like named Bell County the town seemed destined for growth. The l880's marked the town's brightest age, with the building of the courthouse, Mary Hardin Baylor buildings, and a \"railroad war\" in which, by 1881,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/belton\/","name":"Belton","slug":"belton","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/17227","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=17227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}