McKinley is an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.

Senator and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

By 1860 the community had Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches, two schools, several general stores, a brick drug store, livery stables, two-story carriage repair shop, saddle and harness shop, hotel, three shoe shops, an undertaker, tanning yard, brickyard, and grist mill.

It never recovered from the combined effects of the fires, American Civil War, and a changing agricultural situation.

This Marengo County, Alabama state location article is a stub.