Parrish, Florida
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Parrish, Florida |
| settlement_type | Unincorporated community |
| image_skyline | Parrish Post Office Florida 2019-12003.jpg |
| image_caption | The Parrish Post Office in 2019 |
| pushpin_map | Florida#USA |
| pushpin_label | Parrish |
| pushpin_label_position | left |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | United States |
| subdivision_type1 | State |
| subdivision_name1 | Florida |
| subdivision_type2 | County |
| subdivision_name2 | Manatee |
| unit_pref | Imperial |
| timezone | EST |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| timezone_DST | EDT |
| utc_offset_DST | -4 |
| coordinates | |
| elevation_ft | 43 |
| postal_code_type | ZIP code |
| postal_code | 34219 |
| area_code | 941 |
| blank_name | FIPS code |
| blank_info | 12-55275 |
| blank1_name | GNIS feature ID |
| blank1_info | 288540 |
| named_for | Crawford Parrish |
| :: |
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Parrish is an unincorporated community in northwestern Manatee County, Florida, United States.
The community is located near the intersection of U.S. 301 and State Road 62 and is part of the North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Parrish contains the Florida Railroad Museum, which operates weekend passenger rides round trip from Parrish about 6 mi northeast to Willow.
History
The first "settlers" in the area were William B. Hooker and William H. Johnson, who established a plantation named Oak Hill in 1850 in an unsuccessful attempt to grow sea island cotton. This plantation burned down in the Seminole Wars but the area continued to be referred to as Oak Hill. William Turner made a homestead at Oak Hill in 1865 but only stayed for a few years before establishing Bradenton.
In 1868, Turner sold the land to Crawford Parrish and his wife Mary Bratcher VanZant. Parrish, a rancher and orange farmer originally from Georgia, sold his plantation on the banks of the Suwannee River that he had held since 1841 and moved to present day Parrish which was, at the time, still referred to as Oak Hill.
The Parish Post Office was established in 1879, effectively changing the spelling of the town's name to Parish, until 1950 when the spelling was officially changed back to Parrish. Compiled in the late 1930s and first published in 1939, the Florida guide listed Parrish's population as 721 and described it as "a citrus-fruit and vegetable shipping center". Parrish was a small agriculture community until the late 2000s when agricultural land began to be developed into residential subdivisions.
Climate
|location = Parrish, Florida, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1957–2014 |single line = Y
|Jan record high F = 92 |Feb record high F = 90 |Mar record high F = 92 |Apr record high F = 95 |May record high F = 98 |Jun record high F = 101 |Jul record high F = 99 |Aug record high F = 101 |Sep record high F = 97 |Oct record high F = 98 |Nov record high F = 92 |Dec record high F = 89
|Jan avg record high F = 82.7 |Feb avg record high F = 83.2 |Mar avg record high F = 85.8 |Apr avg record high F = 88.5 |May avg record high F = 92.5 |Jun avg record high F = 94.8 |Jul avg record high F = 94.5 |Aug avg record high F = 94.5 |Sep avg record high F = 93.0 |Oct avg record high F = 90.4 |Nov avg record high F = 86.6 |Dec avg record high F = 83.8 |year avg record high F = 95.
| Jan high F = 71.8 | Feb high F = 74.3 | Mar high F = 77.4 | Apr high F = 81.7 | May high F = 86.6 | Jun high F = 89.2 | Jul high F = 90.0 | Aug high F = 90.0 | Sep high F = 88.4 | Oct high F = 84.1 | Nov high F = 78.2 | Dec high F = 74.0 |year high F = 82.1 |Jan mean F = 61.1 |Feb mean F = 63.4 |Mar mean F = 66.9 |Apr mean F = 71.8 |May mean F = 76.9 |Jun mean F = 80.9 |Jul mean F = 82.1 |Aug mean F = 82.3 |Sep mean F = 80.9 |Oct mean F = 75.6 |Nov mean F = 68.4 |Dec mean F = 63.8 |year mean F = 72.8 | Jan low F = 50.4 | Feb low F = 52.6 | Mar low F = 56.4 | Apr low F = 61.9 | May low F = 67.2 | Jun low F = 72.6 | Jul low F = 74.2 | Aug low F = 74.5 | Sep low F = 73.4 | Oct low F = 67.1 | Nov low F = 58.5 | Dec low F = 53.5 |year low F = 63.5
|Jan avg record low F = 31.2 |Feb avg record low F = 34.6 |Mar avg record low F = 40.7 |Apr avg record low F = 44.8 |May avg record low F = 56.2 |Jun avg record low F = 64.8 |Jul avg record low F = 68.8 |Aug avg record low F = 69.1 |Sep avg record low F = 65.9 |Oct avg record low F = 51.6 |Nov avg record low F = 42.7 |Dec avg record low F = 34.5 |year avg record low F = 28.9
|Jan record low F = 18 |Feb record low F = 24 |Mar record low F = 29 |Apr record low F = 34 |May record low F = 44 |Jun record low F = 51 |Jul record low F = 61 |Aug record low F = 61 |Sep record low F = 57 |Oct record low F = 42 |Nov record low F = 25 |Dec record low F = 20
|precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation inch = 3.04 | Feb precipitation inch = 2.14 | Mar precipitation inch = 2.77 | Apr precipitation inch = 3.16 | May precipitation inch = 3.05 | Jun precipitation inch = 8.33 | Jul precipitation inch = 7.92 | Aug precipitation inch = 8.99 | Sep precipitation inch = 8.34 | Oct precipitation inch = 2.61 | Nov precipitation inch = 1.69 | Dec precipitation inch = 2.39 |year precipitation inch = 54.43 | unit precipitation days = 0.01 in | Jan precipitation days = 6.0 | Feb precipitation days = 5.1 | Mar precipitation days = 6.2 | Apr precipitation days = 4.8 | May precipitation days = 5.1 | Jun precipitation days = 12.7 | Jul precipitation days = 15.9 | Aug precipitation days = 15.6 | Sep precipitation days = 12.8 | Oct precipitation days = 5.9 | Nov precipitation days = 3.9 | Dec precipitation days = 5.7 | year precipitation days = 99.7 |Jan snow inch = |Feb snow inch = |Mar snow inch = |Apr snow inch = |May snow inch = |Jun snow inch = |Jul snow inch = |Aug snow inch = |Sep snow inch = |Oct snow inch = |Nov snow inch = |Dec snow inch = |year snow inch = |unit snow days = 0.1 in |Jan snow days = |Feb snow days = |Mar snow days = |Apr snow days = |May snow days = |Jun snow days = |Jul snow days = |Aug snow days = |Sep snow days = |Oct snow days = |Nov snow days = |Dec snow days = |year snow days = |source 1 = NOAA (mean maxima/minima 1981–2010){{cite web | url = https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=tbw | title = NOWData - NOAA Online Weather Data | publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | accessdate = May 23, 2021 | archive-date = June 16, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190616075146/https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=tbw | url-status = dead | url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USC00086880&format=pdf | title = Summary of Monthly Normals 1991–2020 | publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | accessdate = May 23, 2021
References
References
- (February 12, 2011). "US Gazetteer files: 2016". [[United States Census Bureau]].
- "U.S. Census website". [[United States Census Bureau]].
- {{gnis. 288540. Parrish
- "Welcome to the Florida Railroad Museum". frrm.org.
- (March 26, 1988). "Dedication of Historical Marker at Parrish".
- "Parrish".
- Grimes, David. (November 23, 1978). "The Legends Behind Manatee Names". [[Sarasota Herald Tribune]].
- Federal Writers' Project. (1947). "Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State". Oxford University Press.
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