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Parker (Mojave 'Amat Kuhwely, formerly 'Ahwe Nyava) is the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona, United States, [3] on the Colorado River in Parker Valley. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 3,417.
The Parker Post Office was established on January 6, 1871, at Parker's Landing. [4] [5] [6]: 118 In 1909, Earl. H. Parker (no relation to Ely Parker), a railroad location engineer, surveyed and laid out the original town site for the Arizona & California Railway. The Town of Parker was officially incorporated as a town in 1948. [2]
La Paz County was established in 1983 after voters approved separating the northern portion of Yuma County, making it the only county to be established after Arizona became a state in 1912, and currently the second youngest county in the United States (behind the consolidated city-county of Broomfield, Colorado, which was established in 2001).
The Old Presbyterian Church near Parker, Arizona, also known as Mojave Indian Presbyterian Mission Church, was built in 1917. It is located in what is now La Paz County, Arizona. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1] It is a "simple and unpretentious" adobe building, 43 feet (13 m) long by 24 feet (7.3 m) wide.
The Parker route was chosen because it was seen as the safest and most economical. [3] A $220 million bond was approved on September 29, 1931. Work began in January 1933 near Thousand Palms, and in 1934 the United States Bureau of Reclamation began work on the Parker Dam. Construction of the aqueduct was finished in 1935.
The Parker Jail, or Old Parker Jail, is a historic jail in Parker, Arizona which was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]It is a 24 by 30 feet (7.3 m × 9.1 m) cement block building, which originally held two cells and an office.
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The line between A&C Junction, AZ, and Parker opened by June 1907. The Colorado River bridge near Parker was completed in June 1908 and the track connection in Cadiz, California was made on June 10, 1910; service to Cadiz commenced on July 1. [4] In 1909, the Arizona and Swansea Railroad that connected Swansea from Bouse was completed.