Carpenter, North Carolina

Carpenter is a small unincorporated community located in western Wake County, North Carolina. Carpenter is centered on the intersection of Carpenter-Upchurch Road and Morrisville-Carpenter Road just east of North Carolina Highway 55. Most of Carpenter has been annexed by the Town of Cary. The community was named for William Carpenter, the first settler in the area in 1865 (Powell 1968, p. 89). Carpenter was a stop on the former Durham and Southern Railway.

Carpenter Elementary was named for the community but lies in a recently annexed part of Cary.

References

Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1

Coordinates: 35°49′16″N 78°52′19″W / 35.821°N 78.872°W / 35.821; -78.872

Municipalities and communities of Wake County, North Carolina, United States

County seat: Raleigh

Cities	Durham‡ Raleigh‡

Towns	Apex Cary‡ Fuquay-Varina Garner Holly Springs Knightdale Morrisville‡ Rolesville Wake Forest‡ Wendell Zebulon

Unincorporated communities	Auburn Bonsal Carpenter Chestnut Hills Clegg Eagle Rock Falls Feltonville Forestville Friendship Green Level Holland Hopkins Kennebec Lizard Lick McCullers Crossroads Neuse New Hill Purnell Riley Hill Shotwell Stony Hill Swift Creek Willow Spring

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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