{"id":36468,"count":1,"description":"West Plains is a city in Howell County, Missouri, United States. The population was 10,866 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Howell County. The West Plains Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Howell County.\nWest Plains is located at 36\u00b044\u203214\u2033N 91\u00b051\u203254\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff36.73722\u00b0N 91.865\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 36.73722; -91.865 (36.737355, -91.864991). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.4\u00a0square miles (32.1\u00a0km\u00b2), of which, 12.4 square miles (32\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (0.16%) is water.\nWest Plains was the site of a disaster later remembered in folksong. On Friday, April 13, 1928, about sixty young people had gathered in the Bond Dance Hall, on the second floor of an East Main Street building (the ground floor was occupied by Wiser Motors). At 11:05 p.m., as the orchestra played \"At Sundown,\" a violent explosion occurred. Thirty-seven people were killed and 22 more were injured. Twenty of the dead were never positively...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/west-plains\/","name":"West Plains","slug":"west-plains","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/36468","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=36468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}