{"id":45,"date":"2018-12-17T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=45"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:28:51","slug":"cherokee","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/cherokee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Carolina\u2019s westernmost county, Cherokee County has a population of 28,087 with a total employment of 8,066 (28.7%). The county seat is Murphy, which is located 21.6 miles from the Tennessee border and 360 miles from Raleigh. Murphy is closer to six other state&#8217;s capitals (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky and West Virginia) than to North Carolina&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county&#8217;s most profitable agricultural product is vegetables\/melons\/potatoes, while the largest product by acreage is forage land (for grain production). The type of livestock produced most by total number is cattle and calves. The largest manufacturer is Sioux Tools, the county\u2019s sixth-largest employer, which manufactures industrial tools and employs between 250 and 499 people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-45","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/45\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}