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Parker
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city in Douglas County, Colorado, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Douglas
- Incorporated
- May 1, 1981
- Named after
- James Parker
- Type
- Home rule municipality
- Town
- 22.455 sq mi (58.158 km )
- Land
- 22.447 sq mi (58.138 km )
- Water
- 0.0085 sq mi (0.022 km )
- Elevation
- 5,834 ft (1,778 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 65,473
- Rank
- US: 633rd, CO: 19th
- Density
- 2,727.3/sq mi (1,053.01/km )
- Urban
- 2,686,147 (US: 18th )
- Metro
- 2,985,871 (US: 19th )
- Combined
- 3,663,515 (US: 18th )
- Time zone
- UTC–7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC–6 (MDT)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Parker
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Douglas County
- Population
- 58512
- Area
- 53.072053
- Elevation
- 1789
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Official website
- www.parkeronline.org
- Image
- Parker, Colorado.JPG
- Households
- 18944
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- topic's main category
- Category:Parker, Colorado
- inception
- 1981-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Parker, Colorado
- water as percent of area
- 0.079
- water area
- 0.041951
- per capita income
- 45720
- postal code
- 80138
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Encyclopedic overview
Parker is a home rule municipality in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. As a self-declared "town" under the home rule statutes, Parker is the second most populous town in the county; Castle Rock is the most populous (the community of Highlands Ranch, with a population of over 100,000, is an unincorporated CDP). In recent years, Parker has become a commuter town at the southeasternmost corner of the Denver metropolitan area. The population was 58,512 at the 2020 census. Parker is now the 19th most populous municipality in the state of Colorado.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.