{"id":19622,"count":1,"description":"Okeechobee is a city in Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,376 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 5,784. It is the county seat of Okeechobee County. The Speckled Perch Festival is held annually in honor of the most famous fish of Lake Okeechobee. This area was the site of the worst effects of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, the first recorded Category 5 hurricane in the North Atlantic and still one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the US.\nOkeechobee is serviced by the Okeechobee County Airport (IATA: OBE,\u00a0ICAO: KOBE).\nOkeechobee is located at 27\u00b014\u2032N 80\u00b050\u2032W (27.2416, -80.8332) just north of Lake Okeechobee.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11\u00a0km). 4.1 square miles (11\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (0.96%) is water.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 5,376 people, 1,837 households, and 1,287 families residing in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/okeechobee\/","name":"Okeechobee","slug":"okeechobee","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/19622","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=19622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}