Do you know of Carter ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carter. 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 Carter.
Our sources for Carter (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 Carter other than they indicate that Carter would be found somewhere in Fayette County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1896.
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 Carter ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Carter.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Carter.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Carter [Upshur County].
- Upshur County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Carter [Washington County].
- Delaware
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Carter [Carter County].
- Mississippi
- Coahoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Carter [Coahoma County].
- Perry 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 Mississippi community of Carter [Perry County].
- Yazoo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Carter [Yazoo County].
- Montana
- Chouteau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Carter [Chouteau County].
- Missoula 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 Montana community of Carter [Missoula County].
- Nebraska
- Harlan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Carter [Harlan County].
- New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Carter [Roosevelt County].
- North Carolina
- Gates County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carter [Gates County].
- Stokes 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 North Carolina community of Carter [Stokes County].
- Ohio
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Carter [Washington County].
- Oklahoma
- Beckham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Carter [Beckham County].
- Cherokee 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 Oklahoma community of Carter [Cherokee County].
- Pennsylvania
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carter [Butler County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tripp County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Carter [Tripp County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Uinta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Carter [Uinta County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carter ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Carter:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Carter - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Carter 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/ |