{"id":41458,"count":1,"description":"Silsbee is a city in Hardin County, Texas, United States. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 96 and State Highway 327. The population was 6,393 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Beaumont\u2013Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nSilsbee is located at 30\u00b020\u203253\u2033N 94\u00b010\u203249\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff30.34806\u00b0N 94.18028\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 30.34806; -94.18028 (30.348095, -94.180220).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.5 square miles (19\u00a0km), all land.\nSilsbee was first referred to as Mill Town when the site was first reached by the Gulf, Beaumont, and Kansas City Railway in 1894. The town was renamed in recognition of Nathaniel Silsbee, an investor from Boston, Massachusetts who helped provide funds for the railway. The railroad was a project of John Henry Kirby who would soon establish the Kirby Lumber Company in the city. This business would be the main employer and strength of the Silsbee economy from the city\u2019s beginning.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/silsbee\/","name":"Silsbee","slug":"silsbee","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41458","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=41458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}