{"id":8579,"count":2,"description":"Kersey is a statutory town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,389 at the 2000 census.\nOriginally called Orr, Kersey was created in 1882 as a place on the Union Pacific Railroad main line between Julesburg and LaSalle. The area was given its current name in 1896 by John Kersey Painter after his grandfather. It was officially incorporated as a town in 1908. In 1973, the nearby Latham Reservoir broke, flooding a significant portion of the town and causing major damage.\nKersey is located at 40\u00b023\u203210\u2033N 104\u00b033\u203241\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.38611\u00b0N 104.56139\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.38611; -104.56139 (40.386060, -104.561453).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 1,389 people, 474 households, and 374 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,425.8 people per square mile (552.9\/km\u00b2). There were 489 housing units at an average density of 502.0 per square mile (194.6\/km\u00b2...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/kersey\/","name":"Kersey","slug":"kersey","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8579","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=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}