Parris, Texas
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Coordinates: 33°15′10″N 96°36′21″W / 33.25278°N 96.60583°W / 33.25278; -96.60583 | |
Country | United States |
State | Texas |
Counties | Collin |
Elevation | 551 ft (168 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP code |
75454
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Area code(s) | 214, 469, 972 |
GNIS feature ID | 2034654[1] |
Parris, Texas is a community that once existed just south of Melissa in central Collin County near the banks of the East Fork[2] of the Trinity River.
In 1859 Thaddeus Parris, a Mexican–American War veteran for whom the community was named built an ox-turned gristmill[3] at this location. This attracted settlers of the area during the next decade and until sometime in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century Parris remained a community center for area farmers.[4]
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Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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