Carpenter, Mississippi | |
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  Carpenter  Carpenter | |
| Coordinates: 32°02′03″N 90°40′49″W / 32.03417°N 90.68028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Copiah |
| Elevation | 164 ft (50 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 601 & 769 |
| GNIS feature ID | 668080[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]
- ^ "Carpenter, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ William L. Jenkins: Mississippi United Methodist Churches, Two Hundred Years of Heritage and Hope. Franklin, Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 1986, p. 33.
- ^ 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.