Name: Carpenter

County: Laramie

Authority Name:

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1042200W

Latitude: 410244N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 5440/1658

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Populated Place

Origin of Name:

Named for J. Ross Carpenter, who brought settlers there from Iowa.

Source: WPA

Other Names: 

Alternative Spellings:

History:

Carpenter Post Office was established in November, 1907.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

Postoffice and small settlement in Laramie County, 25 miles southeast of Cheyenne on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

Stories:

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Carpenter

Newspapers:

More Information: 

Inventors from Carpenter in the Wyoming Inventors Database

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