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Parker, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29611. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. 13,407 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Parker within Greenville County

Population over time

3 figures

Parker grew from 10,760 to 13,407 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200010,760
201011,431+671 (+6%)
202013,407+1,976 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Parker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 404 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Natural3
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Parker: 3 prospects, 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Edgcomb Steel--Greenville, S.C.Iron, AluminumProducer
Saluda Lake MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Greenville MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
W.F. Thomas Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
B E Woodson ProspectMicaProspect
Boling MineMicaPast Producer
C H Ellis ProspectMicaProspect
G F Fuller DepositMicaOccurrence
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lockwood Heights0.1 miles14
Mansfield Park0.4 miles14
Westville0.4 miles14
White Horse Heights0.8 miles14
Poinsett0.9 miles14
Woodbriar1.0 miles14
Brandon1.1 miles14
Woodside1.1 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ParkerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2010201The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867528. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.