Buzzard Roost is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

Bernard Romans' Map of 1772 indicated a place called "Chickianooe", which appears to be a misprint of the Choctaw word Chickianoce, Skeki anusi or anosi, meaning 'buzzards there sleep'.

[3] Levi Colbert, Chickasaw Bench Chief, built his stand in Buzzard Roost in 1801.

[9] Buzzard Roost was a stop on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, between Iuka, Mississippi, and Cherokee Station, Alabama.

[16] As of 2011, a Pratt pony truss bridge built over Buzzard Roost Creek in 1940 remains, although it is rated "structurally deficient.