The McKissack Ponds (sometimes misspelled as McKissick) are five small ponds in the city limits of Carrabelle, Franklin County, Florida, just west – 0.3 miles (0.48 km) to 0.8 miles (1.3 km) – of the Carrabelle–Thompson Airport, on the north and south sides of Airport Road.

Carrabelle is a coastal inland rural town, contiguous to St. George Sound (part of the Apalachee Bay system), just west of St. James Island, on the Gulf of Mexico's northeastern coast – sometimes referred to as "the Forgotten Coast" – in the Panhandle.

From another perspective, the ponds are 3.4 miles (5.5 km) due north (and slightly west) of the southern tip of Dog Island.

[4][2] According to the USGS, The largest McKissack Pond is located 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) southwest of the Carrabelle village center.

McKissack is the surname of a family, long-time residents of the area, the first Floridian generation being William Crawford McKissack (born in Shorterville, Alabama; 1878–1958), a pharmacist and real estate developer who – with his wife, Mae Pickett (maiden; born in Apalachicola, Florida, 1879–1925) – moved from Shorterville to Carrabelle in 1903, and, for more than 50 years, in Carrabelle, operated a drugstore on Main Street – "The W.C. McKissack Drug Store."