{"id":35125,"count":1,"description":"Murphysboro is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,970 at the 2010 census. The city is part of the Metro Lakeland area.\nMurphysboro is located at 37\u00b046\u20322\u2033N 89\u00b020\u203214\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff37.76722\u00b0N 89.33722\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 37.76722; -89.33722 (37.767245, -89.337346).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.8\u00a0square miles (12.5\u00a0km\u00b2), of which, 4.8\u00a0square\u00a0miles (12.5\u00a0km\u00b2) of it is land and 0.21% is water.\nMurphysboro is located 5 miles (8.0\u00a0km) southeast of Kinkaid Lake.\nEstablished in September 1843, Murphysboro is the second county seat of Jackson County. Its birth is tied to the disastrous fire that destroyed the courthouse in first county seat, Brownsville. The fire proved to be the catalyst to move the county seat to a more central location. The name was decided for the new town when William C. Murphy\u2019s name was drawn from a hat containing the names of the three commissioners who chose the new location, a 20-acre ...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/murphysboro\/","name":"Murphysboro","slug":"murphysboro","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/35125","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=35125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}