Lake Carmel, New York

Lake Carmel, New York
Census-designated place
NY Route 311 crossing Lake Carmel
Location in Putnam County and the state of New York.
Coordinates: 41°27′37″N 73°39′42″W / 41.46028°N 73.66167°W / 41.46028; -73.66167
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Putnam
Area [1]
• Total	5.56 sq mi (14.39 km2)
• Land	5.22 sq mi (13.53 km2)
• Water	0.33 sq mi (0.86 km2)
Elevation	801 ft (244 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	8,069
• Density	1,544.31/sq mi (596.29/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	10512
Area code	845
FIPS code	36-40398
GNIS feature ID	0954900

Lake Carmel is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Kent in Putnam County, New York, United States. The home of over half of the town of Kent's population of 8,282,^[2] the hamlet is centered around Lake Carmel, a 1.6 mile long manmade lake in the southeastern corner of the township and just north of hamlet of Carmel within the town of Carmel.

The lake and surrounding community was developed by the Smadbeck brothers, who excavated and dammed a swamp in the 1920s and sold lots through the now-defunct New York Daily Mirror. The hamlet is the seat of the volunteer Lake Carmel Fire Department; its fire district covers the eastern half of the township, and of the Kent town government.^{[clarification needed]}