{"id":41715,"count":1,"description":"Mirando City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Webb County, Texas, United States. The population was 493 at the 2000 census. The town gets its name from Nicol\u00e1s Mirando, a Spanish land grantee. The population of Mirando City was highest in 1929, at an estimated 1500. The peyote cactus thrives in and around Mirando City and nearby Oilton, and is a clandestine source of income for residents. Peyoteros have harvested peyote in Mirando City for over a hundred years.\nMirando City was the center of the South Texas Oil Boom, launched in 1921 by the industrialist Oliver Winfield Killam of Laredo.\nO. W. Killiam established the community in 1921.\nMirando City is located at 27\u00b026\u203226\u2033N 98\u00b059\u203257\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff27.44056\u00b0N 98.99917\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 27.44056; -98.99917 (27.440631, -98.999170).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 11.1\u00a0square miles (28.7\u00a0km\u00b2), all of it land.\nIt is 30 miles (48\u00a0km) southeast of Laredo.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 493 people, 145 households...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mirando-city\/","name":"Mirando City","slug":"mirando-city","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41715","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=41715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}