Hobson City is a town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.

Hobson City became Alabama's first self-governed all-black municipality[2] in 1899 and continues to have an African American majority.

As a result, and in keeping with campaign promises, Mayor Whitehead of Oxford went to the state capitol and had the corporate boundaries of Oxford redrawn to exclude Mooree Quarter and the black vote.

The town was named after Richmond P. Hobson, a white naval hero in the then-recent Spanish-American War and member of Congress.

Newman O'Neal was the mayor in 1919 until he faced death threats and was assaulted by the Ku Klux Klan forcing him to flee the city.

Hobson City is located in southern Calhoun County at 33°37'6.589" North, 85°50'36.330" West (33.618497, -85.843425).

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.7 km2), all land.