Cul-Car-Mac Falls is a waterfall on Fall Creek in DeKalb County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region, with a total height of about 90 feet. It lies about 2.4 miles southeast of Smithville and roughly 35 miles east of Murfreesboro as the crow flies.
At 90 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 27th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a fan, spreading out horizontally as it falls and staying in contact with the rock.
The Interior Plateau is a rolling limestone landscape of pasture, oak-hickory woodland and cedar glades in Kentucky and Tennessee, riddled with springs, sinkholes and caves. Waterfalls drop over limestone ledges and in karst valleys. Fall Creek carries 3 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 256 feet.
There are 6 recorded waterfalls in DeKalb County. Evins Mill Falls, a 105-foot tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Pine Creek Falls, 30 feet high, is about 2.3 miles away. Waterfalls Hollow Falls, a plunge waterfall, is about 7.8 miles away.
Cul-Car-Mac Falls is located at 35.9442° N, 85.7762° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. The position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.