{"id":33880,"count":1,"description":"Piper City is a village in Ford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 826 at the 2010 census.\nPiper City is located at 40\u00b045\u203224\u2033N 88\u00b011\u203222\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.75667\u00b0N 88.18944\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.75667; -88.18944 (40.756749, -88.189560).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nPiper City was laid out in 1867 for Samuel Cross of New York and Dr. William A. Piper (5 March 1820 \u2013 6 July 1896) of Philadelphia. The original plat was named Brenton. It was a station on the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad, which had been completed ten years earlier. The present name of the town, which was adapted soon after the town was founded, comes from Piper who had extensive land holdings in the area. Cross lived briefly in the township, but little is known of his life. An earlier railroad siding and grain station known as Brenton had been established two miles to the east of the eventual location of the town. The new station was...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/piper-city\/","name":"Piper City","slug":"piper-city","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/33880","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=33880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}