{"id":41035,"count":1,"description":"Lampasas is a city in Lampasas County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,786 at the 2000 census. It is the seat of Lampasas County.\nLampasas is part of the Killeen\u2013Temple\u2013Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nFor his services in the Texas Revolution, John Burleson received 1,280 acres (5.2\u00a0km) of land and established a permanent settlement in the 1850s. The city was first named Burleson; however, the name was gradually changed to Lampasas Springs because of the existence of seven mineral springs. When the county was created in 1856, the law specified \u201cThe county seat shall be same name as the county.\u201d The city of Lampasas was officially incorporated in 1883.\nSeveral theories attempt to explain how the name Lampasas came to be. The Texas Almanac states the word came from a Spanish word for \u201clilies\u201d that are found in nearby streams. Another source states the word comes from the Spanish word \u201cLampazos.\u201d The name was given to the local river by the Spanish Aquayo Expedition in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/lampasas\/","name":"Lampasas","slug":"lampasas","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41035","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=41035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}