Do you know of Carpenter ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carpenter. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Carpenter.
Our sources for Carpenter (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Carpenter other than they indicate that Carpenter would be found somewhere in Emmet County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1897.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Carpenter ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Carpenter.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Carpenter.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Baldwin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Carpenter [Baldwin County].
- Jackson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Carpenter [Jackson County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Carpenter [Washington County].
- Arkansas
- Drew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Carpenter [Drew County].
- California
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Carpenter [Alameda County].
- Colorado
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Carpenter [New Castle County].
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Carpenter [Madison County].
- Iowa
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Carpenter [Mitchell County].
- Kentucky
- Whitley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Carpenter [Whitley County].
- Mississippi
- Copiah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Carpenter [Copiah County].
- Montana
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Carpenter [Gallatin County].
- Nebraska
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Carpenter.
- New Mexico
- Bernalillo County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Carpenter [Bernalillo County].
- North Carolina
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carpenter [Wake County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Carpenter [Custer County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lycoming County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carpenter [Lycoming County].
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carpenter [Philadelphia County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Carpenter.
- South Dakota
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Carpenter [Clark County].
- Texas
- Wilson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Carpenter [Wilson County].
- Wyoming
- Laramie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Carpenter [Laramie County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carpenter ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Carpenter:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Carpenter - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Emmet County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Emmet County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Carpenter could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |