Moundville is a town in Hale and Tuscaloosa counties in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Within the town is Moundville Archaeological Site, the location of a prehistoric Mississippian culture political and ceremonial center.

[citation needed] In the 1930s, the photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee documented the lives of tenant farmers living in the Moundville area in the books Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) and the posthumously published Cotton Tenants (2013).

[citation needed] Moundville is located in northern Hale County at 32°59′55″N 87°37′34″W / 32.99861°N 87.62611°W / 32.99861; -87.62611 (32.998521, -87.626006),[5] on the south side of the Black Warrior River.

Alabama State Route 69 passes through the east side of the town, leading north 16 miles (26 km) to Tuscaloosa and south 22 miles (35 km) to Greensboro, the Hale County seat.

At the 2000 census,[10] there were 1,809 people, 809 total housing units with 688 being occupied households, and 479 families living in the town.

At the 2010 census,[11] there were 2,427 people, 1,003 total housing units with 894 being occupied households, and 652 families living in the town.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,024 people, 1,072 households, and 803 families residing in the town.

The 320-acre (1.3 km2) park contains 26 prehistoric, Mississippian culture-era Native American earthwork mounds, burial sites and artifacts.

This might be an indication of the relative ranks of the people who built and maintained the mounds.

[citation needed] A palisade was built around three sides of the center of the Moundville site, surrounding the mounds, a plaza and residential areas.