  The stellar content of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 is investigated. The main
sequence turn-off (MSTO) in the inner 12 kpc of the disk corresponds to an age
of 6 Myr. A mean star formation rate (SFR) of 0.1 solar masses per year during
the past 16 Myr is computed from star counts. The color of the red supergiant
plume does not change with radius, suggesting that the mean metallicity of
young stars does not vary by more than 0.1 dex. The number of bright main
sequence stars per local stellar mass density climbs towards larger radii out
to a distance of 12 kpc; the scale lengths that characterize the radial
distributions of young and old stars in the disk thus differ. The density of
bright main sequence stars with respect to projected HI mass gradually drops
with increasing radius. The population of very young stars disappears in the
outer disk; the MSTO at galactocentric radii between 12 and 15 kpc corresponds
to 16 Myr, while between 15 and 18 kpc the age is > 40 Myr. Red giant branch
(RGB) stars are resolved at a projected minor axis galactocentric distance of
12 kpc. There is a broad spread in metallicity among the RGB stars, with a mean
[M/H] = -1.2. The RGB-tip occurs at i' = 24.5 +/- 0.1, indicating that the
distance modulus is 27.9 +/- 0.1. Luminous AGB stars with an age 3 Gyr are also
seen in this field.
