Carter is an
unincorporated area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Parker County,
Texas
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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
[
It is in the northern part of the county, spread over several low ridges and valleys draining south to the Clear Fork of the Trinity River and north to Walnut Creek, a tributary of the West Fork of the Trinity River. ]Texas State Highway 51
State Highway 51 (SH 51) is a short state highway located entirely in Hansford County, Texas, just south of Spearman.
Route description
SH 51 begins at SH 207 southeast of Spearman and travels east through unincorporated Hansford Coun ...
passes through the east side of the CDP, leading northeast to Springtown and southwest to Weatherford, the Parker county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
. Fort Worth
Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Te ...
is to the southeast.
Demographics
Carter first appeared as a census designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in the 2020 U.S. Census.[
]
2020 Census
References
Populated places in Parker County, Texas
Census-designated places in Parker County, Texas
Census-designated places in Texas
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