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Parker County
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county in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- Isaac Parker, Texas legislator
- Seat
- Weatherford
- Largest city
- Weatherford
- Total
- 910 sq mi (2,400 km )
- Land
- 903 sq mi (2,340 km )
- Water
- 6.6 sq mi (17 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 184,767
- Density
- 160/sq mi (62/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional districts
- 12th , 25th
- Website
- www .parkercountytx .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Weatherford
- Capital
- Weatherford
- Population
- 148222
- Area
- 2357
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Jack County
- Official website
- www.parkercountytx.gov
- Image
- Parker courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 45848
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- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Parker County
- different from
- Parker
- Commons category
- Parker County, Texas
- inception
- 1855-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Parker County, Texas
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Parker County, Texas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Parker County, Texas
- per capita income
- 36420
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
Parker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 148,222. The county seat is Weatherford. The county was created in 1855 and organized the following year. It is named for Isaac Parker, a state legislator who introduced the bill that established the county in 1855. Parker later fought in the Texas Brigade.
Parker County is included in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parker County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.