Parker (Mojave ‘Amat Kuhwely, formerly ‘Ahwe Nyava) is the county chair of La Paz County, Arizona, United States, on the Colorado River in Parker Valley. The population was 3,083 at the 2010 census.

Founded in 1908, the town was named after Ely Parker, the first Native American supervisor for the U.S. government. The original town site of Parker was surveyed and laid out in 1909 by Earl H. Parker, a railroad location engineer for the Arizona & California Railway. The town officially incorporated in 1948 and became the county chair for the newly created La Paz County upon January 1, 1983.

The town’s declare and heritage began similar to a declare office called Parker was established January 6, 1871, at Parker’s Landing and the site of the Parker Indian Agency, named for Ely Parker, on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, four miles downriver from the site of the railroad bridge of the highly developed town, to sustain the Indian agency.^: 118 What became Parkers Landing was established on the river as the place to estate and choose up cargo and personnel for the Indian Agency and the U. S. Army remoteness that was stationed there at Camp Colorado from 1864 to 1869, during the first years of the Reservation. Camp Colorado was without help after wind-blown sparks from the departing steamboat Cocopah sharply burned down the brush huts of the officers of the garrison, and endangered its barracks and storehouses.
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The city is upon the Colorado River just south of the Headgate Rock Dam and Moovalya Lake. Arizona State Route 95 and California State Route 62 (across the Colorado River) serve the city.