{"id":30606,"count":1,"description":"Ham Lake is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 15,296 at the 2010 census.\nMinnesota State Highway 65 serves as a main arterial route in the city.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 35.7 square miles (92\u00a0km), of which, 34.5 square miles (89\u00a0km) of it is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1\u00a0km) of it (3.50%) is water.\nThe earliest record of settlers in this area goes back to 1855, and in 1856 the group started a town. This was just south and west of a lake shaped like a ham. They platted and sold lots for a town they named, \"Glen Carey,\" a Scottish name meaning \"Beautiful Valley.\" The place was widely advertised as a future city. However, in 1857 all of the houses were destroyed by a prairie fire. Some of the inhabitants barely escaped with their lives saving only a very few household goods. They soon left the area as they had nowhere to live. There was no more settlement until 1866 when a Norwegian man settled in the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ham-lake\/","name":"Ham Lake","slug":"ham-lake","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/30606","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=30606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}