| Parris, Texas | |
| Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
| Pushpin Map: | Texas |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Texas |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
| Subdivision Type2: | Counties |
| Subdivision Name2: | Collin |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation M: | 168 |
| Elevation Ft: | 551 |
| Coordinates: | 33.2528°N -96.6058°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 75454 |
| Area Code: | 214, 469, 972 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 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]