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Parker is a home rule town in Douglas County, Colorado, and the second most populous town in the county after Castle Rock, sitting at the southeastern corner of the Denver metropolitan area.

Parker was founded in 1864 as Pine Grove, where Alfred Butters built a one-room way station on the stage roads following the Cherokee and Trapper's trails; the stop became known as Twenty Mile House for its distance from Denver.

James S. Parker, a Civil War veteran, bought the Twenty Mile House in 1870 and became the settlement's postmaster, and the growing community was renamed Parker in 1882 for James and his brother George, its largest landowners.

To bring the Denver and New Orleans Railroad through the center of town in 1882, James Parker sold his railroad right-of-way for one dollar.

Parker was incorporated on May 1, 1981, when it had only about 285 residents, and Dean Salisbury became its first mayor.

The 2020 United States census counted 58,512 residents in Parker, making it the 19th most populous municipality in Colorado.

The 2020 census counted 20,768 households and 21,443 housing units in Parker.

Cherry Creek flows through Parker on its way north toward Denver.

Parker's historic sites include the Ruth Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the restored Twenty Mile House post office building on Mainstreet, and Parker Cemetery, established on land donated by James Parker around 1884.

The center of Parker lies about 23 miles (37 km) southeast of downtown Denver at an elevation of roughly 5,900 feet.