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Carter is an unincorporated census-designated place in northern Parker County, about ten miles north of Weatherford, and it was first listed as a CDP ahead of the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 1,637 residents in Carter, and Census Bureau survey estimates have since put its population at about 1,738.

Today's Carter carries the name of a vanished frontier town: Cartersville was founded in 1866-67 by Judge W. F. Carter with partners H. C. Vardy and T. Parkinson, who built a flour mill on Clear Fork Creek and added a cotton gin within a year.

Cartersville's flour won a statewide reputation and was judged the best in Texas at the State Fair of Texas in Houston in 1873.

At its height Cartersville had two main streets — Main Street and College Avenue — with stores, a blacksmith shop, a corn mill, a school and two churches, and the legendary cattleman Charles Goodnight once kept a headquarters there.

The town's name was shortened to Carter on January 23, 1888, but the post office closed in 1907 and the community faded away by the 1920s, leaving the stone historical markers that still stand along Carter Road near Springtown.

The modern Carter CDP spreads over several low ridges and valleys draining south to the Clear Fork of the Trinity River, and about 20% of its residents were Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census.