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Carleton is a village within Ash Township in northeastern Monroe County, about 11 miles north of Monroe, the county seat.

Carleton was first platted in 1872 by Daniel Matthews, who had earlier helped select Lansing as Michigan's state capital.

Matthews became the first postmaster when the Carleton post office was established on February 24, 1874.

The village was named after Will Carleton, a popular Michigan poet of the era.

Carleton grew up around a Pere Marquette Railway line and its junction with the Chicago and Canada Southern Railway, with the Pennsylvania Railroad also passing nearby.

Carleton incorporated as a village in 1911.

The 2020 census counted 2,326 people and 990 households in Carleton; the village's population peaked at 2,786 in 1980.

Carleton covers 0.99 square miles, all of it land, and its ground drains east and south through tributaries of Swan Creek toward Lake Erie.

Interstate 275, the western bypass of metropolitan Detroit, passes about a mile east of Carleton, with access from Exit 5 at Carleton Rockwood Road.

Carleton is served by the Airport Community Schools district.