{"id":8761,"count":5,"description":"Bessemer is a city outside of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States eight miles (13\u00a0km) west of Hoover. The population was 29,672 at the 2000 Census, but by the 2009 U.S. Census estimates, the city had fallen to a population of 28,772.\nBessemer is located at 33\u00b023\u203229\u2033N 86\u00b057\u203224\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff33.39139\u00b0N 86.95667\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 33.39139; -86.95667 (33.391343, -86.956569), about 18 miles (29\u00a0km) southwest of Birmingham, a little north of the center of the state.\nAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 40.8 square miles (106\u00a0km), of which, 40.7 square miles (105\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26\u00a0km) of it (0.17%) is water.\nBessemer is situated in the midst of the iron ore and limestone district of Alabama, in the southern part of Jones Valley (about 3 miles (4.8\u00a0km) wide). Iron ore was mined on the hills on the city's southeast side, coal was (and still is) mined to the north and west, and limestone deposits were also nearby. All three ingredients were...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/bessemer\/","name":"Bessemer","slug":"bessemer","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8761","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=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}