{"id":41290,"count":1,"description":"Tomball is a city in Harris county in the U.S. state of Texas, a part of the Houston metropolitan area. The population was 9,089 at the 2000 census. In 1907, the community of Peck was renamed Tomball. The city (and the local school district) are named for local congressman Thomas Henry Ball, who had a major role in the development of the Port of Houston.\nOn Tuesday, September 7, 2010, the City of Tomball City Council voted down a proposal to make the English language the official language of the city, and it voted down a measure that would have forbidden illegal immigrants from owning and\/or renting property and operating and\/or owning businesses.\nSettlement began in the Tomball area in the early 19th century, where immigrants found an open, fertile land that received adequate rainfall\u2014perfect conditions for farming and raising cattle. However, it was not until 1906 that the area began to boom. Railroad line engineers noticed that the Tomball area was on the boundary between the low...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/tomball\/","name":"Tomball","slug":"tomball","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41290","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=41290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}