Hokes Bluff is a city in Etowah County, Alabama, United States.

The town was called "The Bluff", and was used as a lookout station by Native American tribes, as they could see a great distance across, up and down the Coosa River.

Hokes Bluff was one of the staging areas where the Cherokee were collected, and sent to Gunter's Landing (Guntersville), and west to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.

Daniel Hoke Jr. was among the settlers, who came in 1850 and built a trading post and a blacksmith shop near the site of the bluff.

John Henry Wisdom, who became the "Paul Revere of the Confederacy" after making his famous ride from Gadsden to Rome during the Civil War, was a resident of Hokes Bluff.

A new mail route was established from Gadsden to Hokes Bluff in 1890.

It is said that the springs are named for a Native American princess (Tawannah) who grieved herself to death after her cousin, Princess Noccalula, jumped herself to death at Noccalula Falls in Gadsden.

Hokes Bluff is located in eastern Etowah County at 34°00′N 85°52′W / 34.000°N 85.867°W / 34.000; -85.867.

[3] It is bordered to the west by the cities of Gadsden (the county seat) and Glencoe, and to the northwest by the Coosa River.

[4] At the 2000 census there were 4,149 people in 1,638 households, including 1,272 families, in the city.

At the 2010 census there were 4,286 people in 1,747 households, including 1,287 families, in the city.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 4,446 people, 1,610 households, and 1,046 families residing in the city.