About Parker, Colorado

Parker is a town of 58,512 people in Douglas County, on Cherry Creek southeast of Denver. In 1864 Alfred Butters opened the Pine Grove Way Station in a one-room building, where travelers on the stage roads could buy supplies and leave mail. George Long and his wife later bought the building, moved it to Main Street and enlarged it to ten rooms with a ballroom. It became known as Twenty Mile House, for its distance from Denver.

In 1870 James S. Parker, a Civil War veteran from Illinois, bought Twenty Mile House from Nelson and Susan Doud. He added a blacksmith shop and a store, served as postmaster, and built a schoolhouse, paying the first teacher for a year. His brother George held most of the ground the town would grow on and sold it off in pieces to newcomers. In 1882 the settlement took the name Parkers' for the brothers, and the apostrophe was later dropped.

“Parker began as a collection of homesteads around Twenty Mile House, and the railroad allowed the town to expand.”
Colorado Encyclopedia
  • The railroad for $1In 1882 the Denver and New Orleans Railroad opened its line between Denver, Parker and Colorado Springs. James Parker let the railroad have his right-of-way for just $1 so the tracks would run through the middle of town instead of along Cherry Creek, and George sold his as well. Parker station served the town until the line, by then the Colorado and Southern Railway, closed it in 1931.
  • Twenty ponies offeredAt first, Chiefs Washington and Colorow led their people along Sulphur Gulch past settlers' cabins, and on one visit Washington offered John and Elizabeth Tallman as many as 20 ponies for their red-headed son. Relations soured in the 1860s over broken treaties. After the Hungate massacre of 1864 and the Sand Creek massacre that followed, Parker closed its school for a short time, and in 1870 John's brother Jonathan was killed while riding his mule.
  • Parker Cemetery, about 1884Around 1884 James Parker gave three acres for Parker Cemetery, where two of his sons were already buried. The oldest known grave there dates from 1870. James, who died in 1910, lies there with his wife Mattie, who died in 1887.
  • Incorporated in 1981In the 1960s the Parker City Land Company set out to build a modern western town but ran short of money, and in the 1970s Ed Dwight, the first African American astronaut candidate, worked on the project as a developer. Another builder finished it around 1980 or 1981. Dean Salisbury pushed for incorporation to protect local landowners, and when Parker incorporated in 1981 with 285 people, he became its first mayor. By 2014 the town had 48,000 residents.

Find your street

Names on the Parker map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Parker Town Hall
  • Clarke Farms
  • Cottonwood
  • Saddlebrook

Streets and roads242

  • South Parker Road
  • Parker Road
  • East Main Street
  • North Jordan Road
  • Motsenbocker Road
  • Twenty Mile Road
  • Dransfeldt Road
  • Pine Drive
  • East Mainstreet
  • Stroh Road
  • Keyser Creek Avenue
  • West Parker Road
  • East Pine Lane
  • Tyrolite Avenue
  • Ponderosa Drive
  • Spirit Trail Boulevard
  • Riva Ridge Drive
  • Longs Way
  • East Stroh Road
  • South Chambers Road
  • Vista Circle
  • Etallkid Avenue
  • Milliken Street
  • North Crowfoot Valley Road
  • Tallman Drive
  • Pine Lane
  • South Park Glenn Way
  • Flagler Drive
  • Twenty Mile Drive
  • Haswell Drive
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  • Canterberry Parkway
  • Chambers Road
  • Cottonwood Drive
  • East Hilltop Road
  • South Jordan Road
  • East Parker Road
  • East Lincoln Avenue
  • Canterberry Trail
  • East Hess Road
  • North Dransfeldt Road
  • Hess Road
  • Newlin Gulch Boulevard
  • Omaha Avenue
  • South Pine Drive
  • Seibert Circle
  • Crown Crest Boulevard
  • Lemon Gulch Way
  • Club Drive
  • Willowbend Lane
  • French Creek Avenue
  • Compark Boulevard
  • Endeavor Drive
  • McClellan Road
  • East Creekside Drive
  • Triple Crown Drive
  • Heirloom Parkway
  • North Pine Drive
  • East Shady Ridge Road
  • Jordan Road
  • Apache Plume Drive
  • Shasta Daisy Street
  • Nate Drive
  • Ventana Street
  • Grasslands Drive
  • Azalea Avenue
  • East Neu Towne Parkway
  • South Great Plain Way
  • Glenmoor Drive
  • Ledges Road
  • Todd Drive
  • Bayou Gulch Road
  • Carob Circle
  • Vista Road
  • Hilltop Road
  • Stage Run
  • Henslow Parkway
  • Day Star Drive
  • Woodside Lane
  • Red Bud Drive
  • Melco Street
  • East Emilia Drive
  • Pikes Peak Avenue
  • Parkerhouse Road
  • Carlson Drive
  • Unbridled Avenue
  • Hope Dale Avenue
  • Briar Leaf Avenue
  • Mill Valley Street
  • Tack Drive
  • Molina Place
  • Pope Road
  • Haley Avenue
  • North Pine Lane Street
  • Pine Lane Avenue
  • Torreys Peak Drive
  • Clarke Farms Drive
  • Bradbury Ranch Drive
  • East Plaza Drive
  • South Wintergreen Parkway
  • Longs Peak Lane
  • Rose Mallow Avenue
  • Cottonwood Way
  • Rodeo Circle
  • Night Heron Drive
  • Savory Circle
  • Scenic Park Drive
  • South Dransfeldt Road
  • Clarkeville Way
  • Buckhorn Creek Street
  • South Grass River Trail
  • Sandreed Circle
  • Foxton Drive
  • Prairie Trail Drive
  • Reata Ridge Drive
  • Pikes Peak Drive
  • East Dewberry Drive
  • North Dixon Drive
  • East Hollow Horn Avenue
  • East Richlawn Drive
  • Tim Tam Way
  • Blackwell Way
  • Country Meadows Drive
  • Double Angel Road
  • Triple Crown Street
  • Pavillion Drive
  • Holly Hills Way
  • Whirlaway Avenue
  • East Carr Avenue
  • Bluetrail Avenue
  • Hop Clover Trail
  • South Saunter Lane
  • Leesburg Road
  • Trail View Lane
  • Blackwolf Way
  • South Pikes Peak Drive
  • Quail Run Drive
  • Birch Run Lane
  • Pine Top Street
  • Broad Wing Drive
  • East Cattle Avenue
  • South Tallkid Court
  • Pine Hill Street
  • Norway Maple Street
  • Larch Trail
  • Yellow Daisy Drive
  • Allendale Avenue
  • Bolero Drive
  • Hill Gail Way
  • Bent Oaks Street
  • McGarrity Avenue
  • Singing Winds Street
  • Moorside Drive
  • Parker Square Drive
  • Alpine Phlox Street
  • Tammy Lane
  • Paoli Way
  • Gail Way
  • Becket Drive
  • Switzer Park Lane
  • Bayne Way
  • Telford Avenue
  • Tara Lane
  • Elton Way
  • Acer Drive
  • Filly Avenue
  • East Auburn Hills Drive
  • Cedar Gulch Parkway
  • Main Street
  • Henson Creek Street
  • Pine Canyon Drive
  • South Progress Way
  • South Robinson Ranch Court
  • East Idyllwilde Drive
  • South Bradbury Parkway
  • Ridgeview Lane
  • South Allerton Circle
  • Wheatgrass Circle
  • Broadmoor Drive
  • Victorian Drive
  • East Clear Creek Drive
  • East Black Horn Drive
  • South Coltsfoot Drive
  • Firebrick Drive
  • Pine Grove Lane
  • Recreation Drive
  • South Flower Mound Way
  • Quail Run Way
  • Sagewood Lane
  • Mount Elbert Place
  • Wild Lupine Street
  • Golfview Lane
  • Pony Express Drive
  • Herrera Drive
  • Wilson Circle
  • East Molly Avenue
  • Martinello Drive
  • Springfield Drive
  • Wray Court
  • East Firefly Avenue
  • Bay Oaks Avenue
  • Auklet Street
  • Clove Way
  • Canyon Rim Circle
  • Game Trail
  • Horseshoe Lane
  • Lincoln Meadows Parkway
  • South Meander Way
  • Pine Bluffs Way
  • Hitching Post Circle
  • Peppy Blue Dot Ranch Drive
  • White Hawk Drive
  • East Crooked Pine Circle
  • Jordan Court
  • Latigo Lane
  • Severance Drive
  • Prairie Farm Circle
  • Quail Ridge Drive
  • Ironstone Way
  • Prickly Pear Circle
  • Mountain Man Drive
  • Halfinger Avenue
  • Riverchase Way
  • Trail Sky Circle
  • East Lupine Drive
  • Stroh Ranch Drive
  • Red Bud Loop
  • Cloverleaf Circle
  • Chipper Lane
  • Stroh Ranch Court
  • Plover Circle
  • Shasta Daisy Point
  • Compark Court
  • South Silver Plume Street
  • Billingsley Trail
  • Domingo Court
  • East Laurel Street
  • Wildrye Circle
  • Vilas Street
  • Apache Drive
  • Piney Hill Road
  • Birds Foot Lane
  • Quail Road

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