Carmack is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Lyon County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States. It is located on the shore of

Lake Barkley Lake Barkley, a reservoir in Livingston County, Lyon County and Trigg County in Kentucky and extending into Stewart County and Houston County in Tennessee, was impounded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1966 upon the completion of ...

in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.''Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, 4th ed. 2010, p.60 It was also known as Pottertown.

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Unincorporated communities in Lyon County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{LyonCountyKY-geo-stub