Carterville, Texas
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Carterville is an
unincorporated community 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 ...
in Cass County,
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, United States. According to the
Handbook of Texas The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the ...
, the community had a population of 39 in 2000.


History

Carterville was said to have been settled in the 1860s and was named for a family of local settlers. In the 1960s, the community reached its population zenith of 75. There was a business, a town hall, and a church in Carterville in 1983. The population went down to 25 in 1990 then grew to 39 in 2000.


Geography

Carterville is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 995 and
130 130 may refer to: *130 (number), the natural number following 129 and preceding 131 *AD 130, a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar *130 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar *Kin Sang stop, MTR digital station code *130 Ele ...
, northwest of Linden in western Cass County.


Education

Today, the community is served by the
Linden-Kildare Consolidated Independent School District Linden-Kildare Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Linden, Texas, United States. In addition to Linden, the district also serves the unincorporated community of Kildare. In 2009, the school district ...
.


References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Texas Unincorporated communities in Cass County, Texas