Parker, Arizona Parker, Arizona Parker's chief street on April 9, 1942.

Parker's chief street on April 9, 1942.

Location in La Paz County and the state of Arizona Location in La Paz County and the state of Arizona Parker, Arizona is positioned in the US Parker, Arizona - Parker, Arizona Parker (Mojave 'Amat Kuhwely, formerly 'Ahwe Nyava) is the governmental center of county of La Paz County, Arizona, United States, on the Colorado River in Parker Valley.

1.1 Camp Colorado and Parkers Landing Founded in 1908, the town was titled after Ely Parker, the first Native American commissioner for the U.S.

The initial town site of Parker was surveyed and laid out in 1909 by a barns locale engineer by the name of Earl.

Parker for the Arizona & California Railway.

Camp Colorado and Parkers Landing The town's name and origin began when a postal service called Parker was established January 6, 1871, at Parker's Landing and the site of the Parker Indian Agency, titled for Ely Parker, on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, 4 miles down river from the site of the barns bridge of the undivided town, to serve the Indian agency.:118 What became Parkers Landing was established on the river as the place to territory and pick up cargo and personnel for the Indian Agency and the U.

Parker is positioned at 34 8 41 N 114 17 23 W (34.144644, -114.289686). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 22.0 square miles (57 km2), of which, 22.0 square miles (57 km2) of it is territory and 0.05% is water.

According to Enumeration Bureau maps, the town is divided into two non-contiguous sections; the northern section consists of the initial town and is positioned in the Colorado River Indian reservation and the southern section consists of a larger, roughly rectangular section of largely undeveloped territory.

Climate data for Parker, Arizona (1971 2000; extremes since 1893) Record high F ( C) 87 Average high F ( C) 67.4 Wintertime highs in Parker are generally in the upper 60s to lower 70s.

Lows amid the winter are between 40 to 50 F (4.4 to 10.0 C) with an occasional morning dipping below 32 F (0 C).

The all-time lowest recorded temperature in Parker occurred on December 31, 1911, when temperatures bottomed out at 9 F ( 12.8 C); however, snow has been recorded only once when 3.0 inches (0.08 m) fell on one day in December 1932, and no maximum below 32 F (0 C) has ever been observed. Summers in Parker can be dangerously hot, with highs in June, July, August, and September remaining in the 100 to 110 F (37.8 to 43.3 C) range, days over 115 F (46.1 C) or even 120 F (48.9 C) are not rare.

April and May both average 90 to 100 F (32.2 to 37.8 C) daytime highs.

The all-time highest recorded temperature in Parker was 127 F (52.8 C), which occurred on July 7, 1905.

This was, at the time, the all-time record high in Arizona history until Lake Havasu City reached 128 F (53.3 C) on June 29, 1994.

Rainfall is uniformly scanty throughout the year in Parker, with no month averaging more than three days with calculable rainfall.

The monsoon storms that furnish much of the precipitation in southern and easterly parts of Arizona seldom effect Parker.

The wettest month since records began in 1893 was September 1939, when a rare decaying hurricane produced a total of 8.85 inches (224.8 mm) including a record daily total of 3.41 inches (86.6 mm) on the fifth day of that month.

The wettest calendar year has been 1992 with 13.59 inches (345.2 mm) though from July 1992 to June 1993 the figure was slightly higher still at 13.74 inches (349.0 mm) and the driest 1956 with 0.34 inches (8.6 mm). In the town, the populace was spread out with 32.8% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older.

Avi Suquilla Airport (FAA LID: P20) is a enhance use airport positioned one nautical mile (1.8 km) east of the central company precinct of Parker.

The Arizona & California Railroad is headquartered in the barns depot in Parker, after replacing the Santa Fe Railway in 1991 as owner and operator of the barns line through the town.

It crosses over the Colorado River in a five span truss bridge in the town's northwestern limits, and is alongside to the road bridge.

Parker High School students planting guayule at the Poston War Relocation Center on April 9, 1942.

Parker's chief street on April 9, 1942.

Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Parker Barnes, Arizona Place Names, University of Arizona Bulletin, Vol.

John and Lillian Theobald, Arizona Territory Post Offices & Postmasters, The Arizona Historical Foundation, Phoenix, 1961.

Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 5, Arizona; Terrific Conflagration at Camp Colorad - PARKER, ARIZONA Period of Record General Climate Summary Precipitation PARKER, ARIZONA Period of Record General Climate Summary Temperature "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

Municipalities and communities of La Paz County, Arizona, United States Towns in La Paz County, Arizona - Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley - Populated places in the Sonoran Desert - Lower Colorado River Valley - Towns in Arizona - County seats in Arizona - Populated places established in 1908 - 1908 establishments in Arizona Territory