{"id":40775,"count":1,"description":"Timpson is a city in Shelby County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,094 at the 2000 census. The community is named after T.B Timpson, a railroad engineer.\nTimpson was founded in 1885 upon the arrival of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It reached its maximum population in 1925 when it was important in the shipping of lignite.\nTimpson is located at 31\u00b054\u203223\u2033N 94\u00b023\u203252\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff31.90639\u00b0N 94.39778\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 31.90639; -94.39778 (31.906280, -94.397859).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5\u00a0square miles (6.5\u00a0km\u00b2), of which, 2.5\u00a0square\u00a0miles (6.5\u00a0km\u00b2) of it is land and 0.40% is water.\nTimpson is located at the convergence of US Route 59 and US Route 84.\nLike all \"railroad\" towns Timpson was laid out with the railroad, and not north and south as most towns are. Therefore the streets run at an angle of 43 degrees \"off\". When the town was incorporated, Charlie Noblet's map was adopted and is now on record at the county seat, and is the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/timpson\/","name":"Timpson","slug":"timpson","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40775","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=40775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}