Shamrock Lakes, IN

Shamrock Lakes is a town in Licking Township, Blackford County, Indiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 222 residents. Shamrock Lakes was incorporated on May 21, 1973—and was the first community in Indiana to do so in 50 years. The small town consists of a group of six lakes that were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle. Shamrock Lakes's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Indiana setting. The local scoop is how Shamrock Lakes's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The community was listed on the front page of USA Today as one of only five places in the United States named after Ireland's clover emblem, the shamrock.