Carpenter, Mississippi

Carpenter, Mississippi
Carpenter is located in Mississippi
Carpenter
Carpenter
Carpenter is located in the United States
Carpenter
Carpenter
Coordinates: 32°02′03″N 90°40′49″W / 32.03417°N 90.68028°W / 32.03417; -90.68028
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyCopiah
Elevation
164 ft (50 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)601 & 769
GNIS feature ID668080[1]

Carpenter is a small unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States. A former railroad town located seven miles from Utica in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, Carpenter was named for Joseph Neibert Carpenter, president of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbia Railroad.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Carpenter, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ William L. Jenkins: Mississippi United Methodist Churches, Two Hundred Years of Heritage and Hope. Franklin, Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 1986, p. 33.
  3. ^ O. Happyland [pseud.]: "Copiah County Once Boasted of 49 Towns", published in the Crystal Springs, Miss., The Meteor, issue of February 28, 2000, article in the subject file on Copiah County in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, online at http://copiah.msgenweb.org/Resources/Reference/History/Communities/Copiah_County/copiah_county.htm, retrieved 21 July 2009.