Parkers River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in
Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 228,996. Its shire town is Barnstable. The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Duke ...
. It drains out of
Long Pond in
West Yarmouth, flows through
Seine Pond, and empties into the
Nantucket Sound
Nantucket Sound_(geography), Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is long and wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on ...
southeast of
West Yarmouth. Named for Isaiah Parker who lived on the west bank of the river.
References
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Rivers of Massachusetts
Rivers of Barnstable County, Massachusetts