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Welcome to the Carterville Home page. The Carterville Home page provides as much information as possible on Carterville. Knowing Carterville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Carterville’s Home page, you will also find Carterville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Carterville has a population of 2157. 53.7% of Carterville’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.3 are female. 44% of Carterville is married and 76.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $77,058, and the average rent is $721. Household median income in Carterville is $37,163, and the individual median income is $20,036. Carterville’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.8%), Hispanic(6.1%), Multiple(4.1%), Asian(1.1%), Black(0.8%), Native(0.1%), Other(0.1%).


While one James Carter settled in Jasper County in 1841, the land on which Carterville was built was originally owned by his son, James George Leroy Carter, who created a farm in the 1860’s. The town considers itself founded in 1875, when a post office called Carterville opened that year. However, the settlement was not officially incorporated until 1882.


Early Carterville was little more than a lead-mining camp, one of many in the tri-state mining district in southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas and northwestern Oklahoma. It nevertheless thrived, and at one time had a population of over 12,000 residents, making it larger than nearby Webb City.When interurban transportation came to the mining district in 1889, it was in the form of a horsecar line (other sources say a mule road) between Webb City and Carterville.


That operation was absorbed in 1892 by the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Company, later the Southwest Missouri Railroad Company, and by 1894 an electrified streetcar line linked Carterville to Webb City and Joplin in one direction, and Prosperity in the other. Two additional rail lines, that of the Missouri Pacific Railway and the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway, ran down the west border of Carterville.The town began its decline in size after World War I, when the mining industry began to dry up.


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