Hockerville is a ghost town in northern Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States.

[1] Hockerville was a mining community near the Kansas-Oklahoma border; it once had more than 500 residents.

The community was located just south of the Kansas-Oklahoma border between Picher to the west and Baxter Springs, Kansas, to the northeast.

[2] The settlement was named for Leslie C. Hocker, an early resident.

[5] The area was mined for zinc ore and lead from the early 1900s to the late 1970s, leaving in a 40-square-mile (100 km2) area—which includes Hockerville—contaminated by toxins, and part of the Tar Creek Superfund Site.