Carpenter Mesa
Mesa in New Mexico, United States
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Carpenter Mesa is a mesa located at 352047N 1035215W in San Miguel County, New Mexico,[1] northeast of Tucumcari.[2]
The origin of the name is not certain, but might have originated from Henry Carpenter, who operated a large ranch in the Juan Tomás area of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, in the 1880s.[3] In 1880 Frank Carpenter, born ca. 1856 in California, was enumerated in San Miguel County as a "cattle raiser", with wife Victoria.[4] A topographic map shows Carpenter Mesa along the north bank of the Canadian River where it flows parallel to Highway 104.[5]