{"id":27497,"count":1,"description":"Dowagiac (\u00a0\/d\u0259\u02c8w\u0251\u02d0d\u0292\u00e6k\/ d\u0259-wah-jak) is a city in Cass County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 6,147 at the 2000 census. It is part of the South Bend\u2013Mishawaka, IN-MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nDowagiac is situated at the corner of four townships: Wayne Township to the northeast, LaGrange Township to the southeast, Pokagon Township to the southwest, and Silver Creek Township to the northwest.\nThe city name comes from the Potawatomi word meaning \"fishing water\".\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10\u00a0km), of which, 4.0 square miles (10\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (0.74%) is water.\nDowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary, commonly referred to as Dowagiac Woods, a 235 acres (0.95\u00a0km) woods located in Cass, is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Michigan's exceptional natural habitats and extraordinary and endangered plants and animals.\nThe Dowagiac River flows from the stream...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/dowagiac\/","name":"Dowagiac","slug":"dowagiac","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/27497","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=27497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}