title: Parsons
text: # Parsons
  
  Parsons may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  In the United States:
  
  * Parsons, Kansas, a city
  * Parsons, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  * Parsons, Tennessee, a city
  * Parsons, West Virginia, a town
  * Camp Parsons, a Boy Scout camp in the state of Washington
  * Lake Parsons, near Parsons, Kansas
  * Parsons Field, a multi-purpose stadium in Brookline, Massachusetts
  * Parsons Memorial Lodge, Yosemite National Park, California
  * Parsons Peak, a mountain in Yosemite National Park
  * Lucy Parsons Center, an all-volunteer, nonprofit collectively run radical, independent bookstore and community center, located in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  On the Moon:
  
  * Parsons (crater)
  
  ## People
  
  * Parsons (surname)
  * Parsons Baronets, four baronetcies, two in Ireland, one in England, and one in the United Kingdom
  
  ## Companies
  
  * CA Parsons & Company, company founded by Charles Parsons to build turbo-generators
  * Parsons Corporation, engineering firm headquartered in Centreville, Virginia
  * Parsons Dance Company, based in New York City
  * Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, company founded by Charles Parsons to build marine steam turbines
  * WSP Global, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, engineering firm headquartered in New York City
  
  ## Schools
  
  * Parsons School of Design, part of The New School, New York City
     * Parsons Paris (2013), Paris school under Parsons School of Design
  * Parsons College, a former private college in Fairfield, Iowa, closed in 1973
  * Parsons Senior High School, Parsons, Kansas
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * USS Parsons (DD-949), a US Navy destroyer
  * Parsons code, a system of notation used to identify a musical work
  * Parsonsite, a mineral
  