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Carter

Carter County is a county in the of . At the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,202. The largest city and county seat is . The county was officially organized on March 10, 1859, and is named after Zimri A.
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  • Type: County with 5,200 residents
  • Description: county in Missouri, United States
  • Also known as: “Carter County”, “Carter County, Missouri”, and “Carter County, MO”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Big Spring.

Spring
Photo: Hillbilly2008, Public domain.
is one of the largest springs in the and the world. An enormous first magnitude spring, it rises at the base of a bluff on the west side of the Current River valley in the .

Carter

Latitude
36.9303° or 36° 55′ 49″ north
Longitude
-90.9599° or 90° 57′ 36″ west
Population
5,200
Elevation
427 feet (130 metres)
Open location code
868FW2JR+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316970550
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4380170
Wiki­data ID
Q484786
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Carter” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Carter County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كارتر”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كارتر، ميزوري”
  • Armenian: “Քարտեր շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Carter”
  • Basque: “Carter konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County”
  • Bishnupriya: “কার্টের কাউন্টি, মিসৌরি”
  • Bishnupriya: “কার্টের কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Картър”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Carter”
  • Cebuano: “Carter County”
  • Chechen: “Картер (гуо, Миссури)”
  • Chechen: “Картер”
  • Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Chinese: “卡特县”
  • Chinese: “卡特縣”
  • Chinese: “卡特郡”
  • Dutch: “Carter County”
  • Esperanto: “Carter County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Carter”
  • Estonian: “Carteri maakond”
  • Finnish: “Carterin piirikunta”
  • French: “Carter County”
  • French: “comté de Carter”
  • French: “Comté de Carter”
  • Ganda: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Ganda: “Carter County”
  • Georgian: “კარტერის ოლქი”
  • German: “Carter County”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان (ميزؤري)”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κάρτερ”
  • Hungarian: “Carter megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Carter”
  • Italian: “Carter County”
  • Italian: “contea di Carter”
  • Italian: “Contea di Carter”
  • Japanese: “カーター郡”
  • Korean: “카터군”
  • Low German: “Carter County”
  • Mazanderani: “کارتر شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Carter Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County i Missouri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County”
  • Norwegian: “Carter County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر، میزوری”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Carter”
  • Portuguese: “Carter County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Carter”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Carter”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter, Missouri”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter”
  • Russian: “Картер”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Carter”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carter County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Картер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Carter”
  • Spanish: “Carter County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Carter”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Carter”
  • Swedish: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Swedish: “Carter County”
  • Tatar: “Данклин (округ, Миссури)”
  • Tatar: “Картер”
  • Tumbuka: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Tumbuka: “Carter County”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Mo.”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, MO”
  • Turkish: “Carter County”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Missouri”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Mo.”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, MO”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Картер”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، مسوری”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Carter”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter, Missouri”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter, Missouri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter”
  • Welsh: “Carter County, Missouri”
  • Welsh: “Carter County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، مسوری”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی،مسوری”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Chilton Cemetery and Big Spring.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carter”. Photo: Kbh3rd, CC BY 3.0.