What is Carthage, North Carolina?
{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Carthage, North Carolina | settlement_type = [[Town]] | named_for = [[Carthage]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Jonathan |url=https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/moore-county-1784/ |title=Moore County (1784) |publisher=[[John Locke Foundation]] |accessdate= December 9, 2022}}</ref> | nickname = | motto = <!-- Images --> | image_skyline = MOORE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CARTHAGE, MOORE COUNTY.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Moore County Courthouse in Carthage | image_seal = | image_map = Moore County North Carolina incorporated and unincorporated areas Carthage highlighted.svg | map_caption = Location in [[Moore County, NC|Moore County]] and the state of [[North Carolina]]. <!-- Location -->| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]] | subdivision_name = United States | subdivision_type1 = [[U.S. state|State]] | subdivision_name1 = [[North Carolina]] | subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in North Carolina|County]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Moore County, North Carolina|Moore]] | government_footnotes = | government_type = [[Council-manager]] | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1796<ref name=gazetteer>{{cite web |url=https://ncpedia.org/gazetteer/search/carthage/0 |title=North Carolina Gazetteer |accessdate=December 9, 2022 |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209144558/https://ncpedia.org/gazetteer/search/carthage/0 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | established_title1 = Incorporated | established_date1 = 1796<ref name=gazetteer/> <!-- Population -->| population_as_of = [[2020 United States Census|2020]] | population_total = 2775 | population_density_km2 = 160.76 | population_density_sq_m