Welcome to Carter ...

So far, we found very little information about Carter. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Carter to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Carter - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Carter, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Carter , we believe that it would have been located within present day Roosevelt County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Carter, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906.

Time Zone: The area where Carter was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where Carter once stood is in the (575) area code.

Communities Also Named Carter ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 28 communities that are also named Carter - they are located in Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi (3), Montana (2), Nebraska, North Carolina (2), Ohio, Oklahoma (2), Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee (2), Texas (2), Virginia, West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (2) and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Carter.

Adding Carter to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Carter in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Carter was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Carter post office opened in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Carter.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Roosevelt County: www.rooseveltcounty.com/

The official website for State of New Mexico: https://www.nm.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Carter, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including Roosevelt, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/