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Parker, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Grandview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76050. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Parker within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

96 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Parker between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,559 acres in total. 1 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1200 FIRE
24 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service164
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service161
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service113
8 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service83
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1413 E @ JC LINE
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOONE STREET
3 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service164

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parker in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Tornado (EF1)Parker$60,000A National Weather Service damage survey crew found evidence of a tornado east of the city of Rio Vista. This tornado occurred mainly over open fields, causing several areas of tree damage. However, one well built home had a large portion of a roof missing.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindParker$30,000A house was destroyed by high winds.
April 2011HailParker$20,000Golfball sized hail fell in Parker, which is approximately 5 miles east of Rio Vista.
April 2026HailParker$9,000Amateur radio operator reported 2 inch hail 5 miles west southwest of Grandview.
March 2026HailParker-Emergency manager sent images of measured 1.5 inch hail at HWY 171 and CR 304.
April 2018HailParker-Emergency management reported nickel sized hail near the intersection of FM 1434 and FM 1224 A, approximately 4 miles south-southeast of the city of Bono, TX.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindParker-Amateur radio reported a wind gust between 60 and 70 MPH on FM 916 between Grandview and Rio Vista.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindParker-Winds between 70-75 mph were estimated along FM 916 between Grandview and Rio Vista.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Parker-A National Weather Service damage survey crew found evidence of an anticyclonic tornado east of Rio Vista. This tornado occurred as the previous (5.4 mile path) tornado moved in a nearly full circle to the west. This tornado first occurred northeast of the intersection of County Road 1200 and Farm to Market Road 916. This tornado produced very little damage, except for tree lined roads in Johnson County, as it moved from the northwest to south. The anticyclonic tornado was determined through archived radar data of the storm.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindParker-Trained spotters measured 67 mph winds and reported power outages in Sand Flat which is approximately 8 miles southeast of Cleburne.
April 2011HailParker-Half dollar sized hail fell approximately 6 miles southeast of Cleburne.
March 2010HailParker-Penny size hail fell about 6 miles southeast of Cleburne.
August 1996Flash FloodParker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Cuba4.9 miles17
Rio Vista5.0 miles17
Sand Flat5.5 miles17
Grandview5.7 miles15
Antioch6.5 miles15
Oak Hill7.8 miles17
Cleburne9.1 miles16
Burton9.3 miles16

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 Q96398430The 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 1343593. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.