{"id":34960,"count":2,"description":"Dix is a village in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 494 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area.\nDix is located at 38\u00b026\u203226\u2033N 88\u00b056\u203233\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff38.44056\u00b0N 88.9425\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 38.44056; -88.9425 (38.440676, -88.942463).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4\u00a0km), of which, 2.1 square miles (5.4\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.48% is water.\nDix is located on high ground that marks the boundary between the Big Muddy River and its tributary, Casey Creek.\nToday Dix is an exit on Interstate 57, a major north\/south roadway. When it was founded, however, it was on the Goshen Road, which was the main east\/west road in Illinois, running from Old Shawneetown, Illinois to near East St. Louis, Illinois.\nAmong the first settlers around Dix were two brothers named Andrews or Anderson, who came from Rome, New York, in 1830. One of them established a post office called \"Jordan's Prairie\",...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/dix\/","name":"Dix","slug":"dix","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34960","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=34960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}