{"id":7623,"count":10,"description":"Jasper is a city in Walker County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 14,659. As of July 1, 2006 the population had increased to 15,117. The city is the county seat of Walker County, and once ranked among the world's leading producers of coal.\nJasper is located at 33\u00b050\u203232\u2033N 87\u00b016\u203238\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff33.84222\u00b0N 87.27722\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 33.84222; -87.27722 (33.842347, -87.277174).\nAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 26.9 square miles (70\u00a0km), of which, 26.9 square miles (70\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04% is water.\nJasper, named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper, a Red Stick War hero, was settled in 1815, but was not incorporated until 1888.\nDuring the Civil War, Union troops marching toward Selma burned the courthouse and several other buildings in town and raided neighboring farms for supplies.\nThe first significant growth of the area was realized in 1886, when the Kansas City-Memphis & Birmingham and the Sheffield & Birmingham Railroads were...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/jasper\/","name":"Jasper","slug":"jasper","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/7623","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=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}